John Cabot

Statue of John Cabot at Landfall Provincial Park
Cape Bonavista, Newfoundland, Canada

David Warren (Essays in Idleness) got me started. He's talking about John Cabot arriving in Bonaviasta, Rumor has it there is a statue of John Cabot, the English, er Italian, explorer in Newfoundland. But is there really? Google Maps thinks there is and gives me a placemark, but this is as close as Streetview will go.

Cabot sailed across the North Atlantic to Newfoundland in 1497, five years after Columbus 'discovered' the New World.