When the Blessed Isles were separated from the rest of Middle-earth, The Silmarillion describes that mariners who tried to sail to Aman only rounded the Earth, and came back again.
It is also very likely that some Numenorean mariners sailed around the Cape of Ormal, and created some Black Numenorean settlements in the East and South.
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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