North America

The website Answers.com said that the Europeans were trying to find a new life in North America. They also came to find the Northwest Passage is a shortcut between Atlantic and Pacific oceans to Asia. Dale A. Lambert says that the explorers failed to find the entrance of the passage but instead they found North America exist. They couldn't go through the faster way because they would run right into Canada. They didn't want to go around South America so they thought that they would try to find a passage but they would have ran into Canada.