Bartolomeu Dias (Bartholomew Diaz) was the first European explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope in 1488. He ventured only a little way up the east coast of Africa before returning to Portugal.
Dias originally named the Cape as the "Cape of Storms", but this was later renamed Cape of Good Hope by King John II of Portugal as it represented the possibility of a trade route with the East.
Vasco da Gama (Dom Vasco da Gama) was the first European (Portuguese) explorer to round the Cape of Good Hope and find a sea route to India, landing in Calicut in 1498.
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Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope which allowed Vasco Da Gama to be the first to sail to India using this route, arriving in May 1498.
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Pedro Escobar was the navigator who helped Vasco da Gama, the Portuguese explorer, sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India. The voyage began in 1497.
He was a Portuguese explorer who discovered the "Cape Of Good Hope". But he originally named it the "Cape Of Storms", but it was renamed by John ll of Portugal. Dias never got through the "Cape Of Good Hope" though.
Bartolomeu Dias (ca. 1450-1500), a Portuguese navigator and explorer, was the first Europpean to round the Cape of Good Hope, in 1486. rdg
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