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Jacques Cartier
Ferdinand Magellan
Born in St.Malo ; Duchy of Brittany in December 13,1491.was a respectful marines . first voyage to Newfoundland second the northwest passage .
Bartholomew Diaz
born into a portuguese noble family in around 1480, Magellan became a skilled sailor and a navel officer and was eventually selected by king Charles 1 of Spain to search for a westward route the straight of Magellan into a body of water he named the "peaceful sea " ( the modern pacific ocean ).
Bartholomew was a nobleman of the portuguese royal household he was born 1450 ,he was also a portuguese explorer . he sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488,reaching the indian ocean from the Atlantic , the first European known to have done so .
Vasco Da Gama
Vasco Nunez De Belboa
Vasco was a portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea . his initial voyage to India (1497-1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route , connecting the Atlantic and the indian oceans and, in this way , the west and the orient .
Vasco Nunez was a spanish explorer , governor , and conquistador . he is best known for having crossed the isthmus of panama to the pacific ocean in 1513
Pedro Alvras Cabral
Amerigo Vespucci
Born in Belmonte , Portugal to India in 1500 (in red ), and the return the (in blue ) .
Henry Hudson
Born in Florence , republic of Florence , in march 9, 1454 . amerigo was an halian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. At the invitation of king manual of Portugal , Vespucci participated as observer in several other voyages .
considered one of the worlds most famous explorers , Henry Hudson , born in England circa 1565 , never actually found what he was was looking for different routes to Asia , but ended up opening the door to further exploration and settlement of north America .
John Cabot
john was born in either Castiglione Chiavarese , republic of Genoa or Gaeta , Kingdom of naples in c.1450. This indicate that by 1484 he was married to Mattea and already had at least two sons .
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa Italy , in 1451.columbus set sail looking for an ocean route to Asia that would be shorter and safer than traveling by land. Columbus landed in the Bahamas . Christopher Columbus made three more voyages to the new world .