Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so.
Gil Eanes was the first person to sail beyond Cape Bojador.
They could travel by land or sea across Panama or around Cape Horn
he is famous for discovering the cape of good hope, and being the first person to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa .
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The way around Africa is called the Cape of Good Hope. The Cape of Good Hope is the point where a ship begins to travel more Eastward than Southward.
He was the first person to sail around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa He was sponsored by the Portugese king John the second.
bartholomeu dias
From the South Atlantic to the South Pacific.
Cape Horn was named by the first European to sail around it, a Dutch man, and he named it after his home town of Hoorn.
Cape Horn
The first person to die on the Mayflower voyage was William Butten, a young servant boy. He passed away around November 6, 1620, just a few days after the ship arrived at Cape Cod.
From the Indian to the Atlantic going West.