Pamlico Sound North Carolina United States
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Verrazzano’s ship, La Dauphine, nears the area of Cape Fear on about March 1 and, after a short stay, reaches the Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoon along the North American East Coast, in modern North Carolina.
In a letter to Francis I, Verrazzano writes that he is convinced the Sound is the beginning of the Pacific Ocean, from which an access could be gained to China.
This report causes one of many errors in the depiction of North America in contemporary maps.
The continent will not be fully mapped for hundreds of years.