Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian ocean. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.
Bartholomew Dias was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.
Bartholomew Dias was a nobalman of the portuguese royal househould,and was the portuguese explorer. He sailed around the southermost tip of Africa in 1448, the first Europianknown to have done so.
Prince Henry was a Portuguese royal prince, soldier, and patron of explorers. Henry sent many sailing expeditions down Africa's west coast, but did not go on them himself. Thanks to Prince Henry's patronage, Portuguese ships sailed to the Madeira Islands rounded Cape Bojador sailed to Cape Blanc sailed around Cap Vert and went as far as the Gambia River and Cape Palmas
which explorer traveled farther south than any other did
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand Magellan, and the expedition took place from 1519-1522
the captain joshquas from portugese.
Bartholomew Dias was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.
Bartolomeu Dias or Bartholomew Diaz was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European to have done so.
Christopher Columbus
christopher columbus
In the 1400s, Chinese explorers sailed along the eastern coast of Africa, while Portuguese explorers sailed along the western coast of Africa. The Chinese explorer Zheng He led expeditions to East Africa, while Portuguese explorers such as Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama reached the southern tip of Africa and eventually sailed to India.
A Portuguese explorer by the name of Bartholomeu Diaz was on a voyage to find a passage to the Far East when he discovered South Africa; he sailed around it and landed near Cape Aghulas. This was the first reported "discovery" of South Africa by a European; in actual fact South Africa has been inhabited for thousands of years by the indigenous peoples of the area (Khoi San and other groups).
Captain Cook
Vasco da Gama was the first explorer to sail around Africa and across the Indian ocean to India. He was a Portuguese.
Ferdinand Magellan or Fernao de Megalhaes or Ferdinando de Magallanes