no it was Balboa
Juan Ponce de Leon was the first European explorer to reach Florida.
Juan Ponce de Leon
Juan ponce de Leon
Juan ponce de Leon
Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and soldier who was the first European to set foot in Florida.
It was the European explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Magellan
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
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.
Christopher Columbus was the first European explorer to find the Pacific Ocean.
The first European explorer known to have set foot on the continental United States is Juan Ponce de León, a Spanish conquistador. He arrived in Florida in 1513 while searching for the Fountain of Youth. Ponce de León's landing marked the beginning of European exploration in the southeastern region of what is now the United States.
first European explorer to see Pacific Ocean. Saw it from a peak in Panama