Portuguese explorers landed in Guanabara Bay in January 1502.
The first Spanish explorers landed in "La Florida" in 1513.
By the 2153 AD progressors managed to stop the war, which was started, probably, long before Earth's explorers even landed on the planet.
In 1498, Portuguese explorers landed on the Mozambican coastline.
The Indians launched their canoes there, long ago, and the first European explorers landed there, because it was out of the rivers current.
In 1602 Dutch explorers first landed in Sri Lanka, which was then under Portuguese control.
I assure you, many an explorer landed in an early grave trying to make sense of the Niger.
Other explorers like Josiah Gates landed on the area as well, but it was later unofficially founded in 1855.
Just outside Grafton there's a cross on the right side of the highway, where it is thought that the two explorers landed.
Spanish and British explorers landed on the Northwest coast in the 1770s; American explorers followed.