[Mike Darancette]

It's possible and that would have been quite a feat of seamanship.

Followed the Vikings by 400 years.

[ARCADIA]

They didn't just discover America. From that map they were also the first to observe that the Earth was round, and the first to explore the entire coastline of every major continent on earth. It would have been an enormous logistical effort of decades involving a major flotilla of ships, a very advanced system of navigation, the development of the kind of sophisticated timepieces that wouldn't be known by the west for centuries. It's amazing that none of the ships logs, the navigation system, or the highly valuable timepieces survive; but then again, neither did the numerous land based staging areas required to water, service, and feed such a far flung fleet.