Northern America is a vast area, bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean and the east by the Atlantic Ocean. This diverse landscape extends from the US-Mexican border to the Arctic north; and includes deserts, swamps, mountain ranges, prairies and fields of ice.
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Bahamas | ||
| Bermuda | ||
| Canada | ||
| Greenland | ||
| Saint-Pierre and Miquelon | ||
| United States of America |
| Y/M/D | Description | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1530/00/00 | Basque fishermen establish Gran Baya whaling station | Red Bay Basque Whaling Station | Red Bay | |||
| 1565/09/00 | San Agustin established by Spanish admiral Pedro Menendez de Aviles | St Augustine Town Plan Historic District | St Augustine | |||
| 1604/00/00 | Pierre Dugua's expedition spends winter of 1604-1605 on Saint Croix Island | St Croix Island International Historic Site | St Croix Junction | |||
| 1607/05/14 | About 100 English colonist establish Jamestown, first permanent English settlement in America. | Jamestown National Historic Site | Jamestown JCC | Settling the American Colonies | ||
| 1608/07/03 | Samuel de Champlain establishes Quebec | Upper Town of Old Quebec | ||||
| 1619/07/30 | Governor George Yeardley opens a six-day meeting the General Assembly, the first representative legislature in the Americas, at the new timber church on Jamestown Island, Virginia. | Jamestown National Historic Site | Jamestown JCC | |||
| 1620/12/21 | MAYFLOWER pilgrims make landfall and establish the Plymouth Colony. | Plymouth Rock | Plymouth, MA | Settling the American Colonies | ||
| 1670/04/00 | The CAROLINA anchors off the Carolina coast where the settlers debate whether to plant at Port Royal or Kayawah. "the Gouernor adhearing for Kayawah and most of us ... cryed out for Kayawah yet some dissented..." | Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site | Charleston, SC |
| Physiographic Features | Type | AsNotedIn |
|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes | Suite of Lakes |
| Particulars for Northern America: | |
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| World | Segment |
| Theme | AsNotedIn |
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| New France | |
| North American Fur Trade |
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