Vasco da Gama. Magellan was ten years later.
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Vasco da Gama sailed to the Cape at the southern end of Africa and then up the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. His destination was Goa and Calicut in India.
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Vasco da Gama was the first explorer to sail around Africa and across the Indian ocean to India. He was a Portuguese.
Vasco De Gamma, a portuguese explorer, was the first explorer to sail around the southern tip of Africa in order to find a route to Aisa.He named the southern tip of Africa Cape of Good Hope.
His discovery of the ability to sail around the southern tip of Africa to engage in trade with India (and Asia) cut the middlemen out of the overland routes.
A Portuguese explorer named Vasco Da Gama was the one who opened this sailing route. A link can be found below.
Vasco Da Gama was the first explorer to make a complete journey to India. He was Portugese and left in 1497 with three ships under his command. He sailed on the water for eleven months( versus three months for Columbus) when he finally made it to the Indian city of Calicut( not to be confused with Calcutta, which was the city's enemy at the time.
Ferdinand Magellan, and the expedition took place from 1519-1522
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lions can be found in India and northern Africa.
Vasco De Gama of Portugal was the first European to lead a sailing expedition around the southern tip of Africa, known now as the Cape of Good hope, and sail into the Indian Ocean to ports of call in the Orient.