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Vasco Balboa crossed Panama to get to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.
The explorer who claimed the South Sea (Pacific Ocean) for Spain was Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513. He was the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean from the Americas.
Vasco de Balboa is the explorer that crossed the Isthmus of Panama. He crossed over land in that area. Now ships can cross that area through the Panama Canal to get from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
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.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513.
English explorer James Cook first crossed the Antarctic Circle in 1773 during his second voyage to the South Pacific. Cook's expedition marked the first documented crossing of the Antarctic Circle by a European explorer.
He reached the Pacific Ocean, in the year 1513, and he became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean which he claimed and all of its shores for Spain.
Vasco Balboa crossed Panama to get to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
The ocean that was crossed by Magellan after he rounded Cape Horn was the Pacific Ocean. He crossed from the Atlantic Ocean through Cape Horn and out to the Pacific.