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Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to enter the Pacific from the eponymous Strait of Magellan, which he discovered.
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Magellan was an explorer born in Portugal, but sailed for Spain. He was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the world. He named the Pacific Ocean Pacific. Balboa was a Spanish explorer who first sailed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain. He was the first to see, not cross, the Pacific Ocean which at that time was called the Ocean Sea.
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Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
The famous Norwegian who sailed the raft Kon-Tiki was Thor Heyerdahl. Thor was an explorer and writer who sailed from South America to the Polynesian Islands in the Pacific Ocean in 1947.
That would be the Pacific Ocean.