East America is a continent directly south of Africa which oddly enough was uninhabited by mankind until the arrivial of Italian explorer Cristobal Colombo (better known as Christopher Columbus) sailed for the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in search of a direct route across Oceania Grande ("the great ocean," but always retaining its Spanish name on maps worldwide) to the islands off the western coast of Asia. It is the smaller of the two continents of the Southern Hemisphere, being linked to West America by an icy antarctic land bridge. To its west is the southwestern Oceania Grande, spotted with sparse antarctic islands. To its east is the island continent of Magalhasia named for Fernão de Magalhães, a Portuguese explorer known better by his Spanish name, Fernando Megellan, w