<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Menéndez_de_Avilés" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Pedro Menéndez de Avilés">Pedro Menéndez de Avilés</a> sights land near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine, Florida</a> and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contiguous_United_States" id="mwSg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Contiguous United States">continental United States</a>.