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They named it "The Cape of Good Hope".
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∙ 11y agoThe Portuguese explored the coasts of South Africa in the late 15th century, and nominally claimed them as their own with the erecting of padrões (large stone cross inscribed with the coat of arms of Portugal placed there as part of a land claim). Bartolomeu Dias did so in 1486, and Vasco da Gama recorded a sighting of the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, en route to India.
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Which explorers sailed around that southern tip of Africa?
Dias sailed to the southern tip of Africa in 1488.
Around the southern tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
What Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.
What was the first European kingdom to send ships around the southern tip of Africa?
\The portuguese. Vasco da Gama passed the southerntip of Africa to fin a way to the Indies.
1487 who discovered the southern tip of Africa?
Although the Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias departed on his expedition in 1487, it was in 1488 that he discovered the southern tip of Africa. He discovered the Cape of Good Hope during his 1487-1488 voyage.
Portuguese explore who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa?
In 1488, the Portuguese explorer named Bartolomeu Dias succeeded in sailing to the southernmost point of Africa. He named this point the Cape of Good Hope. Dias was born in 1450 and died in 1500.
Who first went around the tip of Africa?
The first recorded expedition to round the tip of Africa was led by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias in 1488. He reached the southernmost point of Africa, which he named the Cape of Good Hope.
By 1948 which portuguese explorer had passed the southern tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
What Portuguese explorer who was the first to sail around the tip of Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
What did Vasco da Gama explored?
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.
What did Bartolomeu Dias explore?
Dias was a portuguese explorer who explored the southern tip of Africa
What is the tip of Africa named?
The Cape of Good Hope.
Rounded the tip of africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
Who reached the tip of africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
Who rounded Africa's tip?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
What rounded the tip of africa?
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean.
What Portuguese explorer that rounded the tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope?
Vasco da Gama.
