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.
Captain Cook
First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of africa? He does that to every question he see's^ But the answer is: The Portuguese.
Portugal was the first European nation to send a ship from Europe around Africa to India and then back to Europe
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Bartholomeu Dias
Bartholomew dias
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.
Portugal (The Portuguese)
Around the south tip of africa..
Prince Henry the navigator
The European discovery was by Captain James Cook,
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.