Who was the first European to cross the pacific ocean?

Answer 1

History does not tell us. What we do have is this:

• 6th century BCE,Euthymenes, explores the northwest coast of Africa.
• 6th century BCE, Hanno the Cartheginian, explores the west coast of Africa.
• 5th century BCE, Himilco the Cartheginian sails out of the Mediterranean and reaches the northern coast of Europe (France), following the trade routes of the Tartessians (a tribe from the southern Iberian Peninsula). Himilco is credited with discovering (or at least communicating encountering) the Saragasso Sea (North Atlantic Gyre).
• 4th century BCE, Pytheas of Massalia, explores the coast of Britain, the North Sea, and parts of Scandinavia.
• 6th century CE, Saint Brendan perhaps reaches Iceland.
• 9th century CE, Naddodur, settled Iceland.
• 9th century, CE, Khashkhāsh ibn Sa`Ä«d ibn Aswad, Atlantic Ocean and parts unknown -- Although it is not a popular theory,Khashkhāsh ibn Sa`Ä«d ibn Aswad may have been the first Old World explorer to have reached the New World across the Atlantic.*
• 10th century CE, Erik Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red), reaches Iceland, and Greenland.
• 10th century CE, Ibn Farrukh, lands on the Canary Islands.
• 11th Century CE, Lief Ericson, reaches Newfoundland, and perhaps present day Maine and Massachusetts.
• 11th century CE, Thorfinn Karlsefni settled L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. His son Snorri was born there (the first European recorded to have been born in North America, perhaps all of the Western Hemisphere).
• 15th century CE, Columbus reaches the Caribbean.
• 16th century CE, the Spanish Conquistadors reach mainland North America.

*It is important to note that there are unproven hypotheses regarding the Egyptians and North Africans reaching the Western Hemisphere during the height of the rule of the Pharaohs. Additionally, there is strong evidence that ancestors of the Japanese and Chinese may have predated Columbus' landings in the Western Hemisphere by 100-10,000 years, and ancient Polynesians are believed to have visited the west coast of North and South America on a regular basis.

Answer 2

Ferdinand Magellan. (That was the answer in most history books).

However, lots of people crossed the Pacific to populate the islands. The Kon Tiki expedition over 50 years ago showed that people crossed from South America all the way across the Pacific. Thousands of years earlier, people crossed the Pacific (albeit by a shorter route) to get from Asia to Alaska.

Magellan was just the first European to cross the Pacific and have his records preserved. That is very important, but it by no means makes him the first human being to make the crossing.

Answer 3

Between May 31 and June 9, 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith, with C.T.P. Ulm, H. Lyon and J. Warner made the first air crossing of the Pacific from Oakland, California via Honolulu and Suva, to Brisbane, Queensland, in "Southern Cross", a Fokker F.VIIb-3m.

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Answer 4

The first person to have crossed the Pacific Ocean was Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. Balboa was the first person to have seen the Pacific Ocean from America in 1513.

Answer 5

Charles Kingsford Smith was the first to fly across the Pacific in 1928.

Answer 6

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 7

actually a man cross over with a hot air bollon his name is Richard Branson

Answer 8

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 9

Magellan