answersLogoWhite

0


Best Answer

Ferdinand Magellan

User Avatar

Wiki User

14y ago
This answer is:
User Avatar

Add your answer:

Earn +20 pts
Q: Who was the first European explorer to discover a strait in the pacific and reach the Philippines?
Write your answer...
Submit
Still have questions?
magnify glass
imp
Related questions

Who was the first European explorer to discover a strait into the pacific and reach the Philippines?

Magellan


What man found that the pacific lay the other side of America?

Explorer Ferdinand Maggellan in 1521 was the first European to discover and sail the Pacific. The Pacific was however already suspected of being there and shown on a map (the Waldseemüller map) from 1507.


What did nunez discover?

He was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean.


What man found that the pacifically on the other side of America?

Explorer Ferdinand Maggellan in 1521 was the first European to discover and sail the Pacific. The Pacific was however already suspected of being there and shown on a map (the Waldseemüller map) from 1507.


What did Vasco Nunez discover?

He was the first European to see the pacific ocean.


Who was the first person to reach the Pacific Ocean?

It was the European explorer Ferdinand Magellan.


Who was the first European explorer to the see the pacific ocean?

Vasco Nunez de Balboa


Who discover the Nokia Asha 311 phone?

Actually Francis Triexl Kyle de Lara discover it in the Philippines 1 year ago.2012 is when the time He discover this phone in a country near the Pacific Ocean named Philippines. -Marie


Who is credited as being the first European to discover the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean and when?

Balboa in 1513


Was Juan Ponce de Leon the first European explorer to reach the pacific ocean?

no it was Balboa


What man found that the Pacific lay on the other side of America?

Explorer Ferdinand Maggellan in 1521 was the first European to discover and sail the Pacific. The Pacific was however already suspected of being there and shown on a map (the Waldseemüller map) from 1507.


What new land did Ferdinand Magellan discover?

He discovered the Philippines. He also named the Pacific Ocean and he named a strait after himself.