Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his expedition discovered the Pacific Ocean (at that time named the South Sea because it was on the south shore of Panama) on September 25, 1513.
Balboa
Balboa
Balboa
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pacific ocean
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
Who explored the land that connects the Americas and become the first Spanish explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean.
That would be the Pacific Ocean.
Magellan was an explorer born in Portugal, but sailed for Spain. He was the first European explorer to circumnavigate the world. He named the Pacific Ocean Pacific. Balboa was a Spanish explorer who first sailed the Isthmus of Panama and claimed it for Spain. He was the first to see, not cross, the Pacific Ocean which at that time was called the Ocean Sea.
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He was the first Spanish explorer to see the Pacific Ocean.