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Vasco Núñez de Balboa is credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean in 1513. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to see the ocean from the Americas, naming it "Mar del Sur" (Sea of the South). This discovery was significant as it opened up new routes for exploration and trade.

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