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Aug 28, 2024 · No one knows exactly where the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa first sighted the Pacific Ocean. Perhaps it was from Balboa Heights, the residential area overlooking the town of Balboa that serves as the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal.
3 days ago · Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513 after crossing the Isthmus of Panama, and Juan Díaz de Solís died in Río de la Plata in 1516 while exploring South America in the service of Spain.
2 days ago · Before it was known as the Pacific Ocean, and while it was still largely unexplored by Europeans, Earth’s largest oceanic mass was first named Mar del Sur or South Sea by the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c.1475–1519), when he sighted a great ocean south of Darien (Panama) on either 25 or 27 September 1513.
5 days ago · Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer who is best known for leading an expedition that crossed the Isthmus of Panama. In 1513, he became the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
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5 days ago · Remnants of these expeditions—under the leadership of a stowaway, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who had earlier been with Bastidas—survived at Santa María la Antigua del Darién, on the Gulf of Urubá near the present-day Colombia-Panama border.
5 days ago · Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first European to sight the Pacific, in 1513; seven years later Ferdinand Magellan rounded South America and sailed across the ocean, missing the main island groups but probably encountering Pukapuka Atoll, in the Tuamotu Archipelago, and Guam.
Sep 3, 2024 · 1513 – Vasco Núñez de Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Panama and reaches the Bay of San Miguel, reaching the "Mar del Sur" (Pacific Ocean). [2] 1513 – Juan Ponce de León explores "La Florida" and the Yucatán. [2] 1514–15 – António Fernandes reaches present-day Zimbabwe. [20]
