Rene-Robert La Salle
The Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
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The Mississippi River was explored by French explorer Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet in 1673. San Salvador, the first island encountered by Christopher Columbus in 1492, is associated with his discovery of the Americas. The Pacific Ocean was first reached by Vasco Núñez de Balboa in 1513 when he crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to see the ocean from the New World.
Vasco Nuñez de Balboa crossed Panama in 1513, becoming the first European known to have seen the Pacific from the Americas.
Christopher Columbus is the explorer who reached the Americas under the flag of Castile. He is an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.
Portuguese explorer BARTOLOMEU DIAS reached in india around 1488.
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Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, discovered a strait in the Pacific Ocean that is now named the Strait of Magellan in his honor. He also led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe and reached the Philippines in 1521, where he was killed during a battle with the indigenous people.
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The explorer who claimed the Mississippi River valley for France was René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. In 1682, La Salle traveled down the Mississippi River and reached its mouth, where he claimed the entire river basin for France, naming the territory "Louisiana" in honor of King Louis XIV. His expedition played a crucial role in expanding French influence in North America.
Jean Nicollet was the first European who travel through the Great Lakes area. he was a French explorer who visited the Lake Michigan that possibly reached the Mississippi River.