who was the first person to sail around africa
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Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias. Introduction. In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia. Dias’ ships rounded the perilous Cape of Good Hope and then sailed around Africa’s southernmost point, Cabo das Agulhas, to enter the waters of the Indian Ocean.
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- Th … e expedition, from 1519-1522, became famous as the first to sail completely around the Earth. After Magellan was killed during a battle against natives in the Philippines (1521), the Basque captain Juan Sebastian Elcano took command and completed the voyage by sailing west around Africa.
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- Afterwards, King Federico made Antonio Noli the first governor of Cape Verde - territory which Noli discovered himself, in 1460.. Portuguese explorer, first European to take African Slaves. Also known as Bartholomew Diaz or Dias Born in Algarve circa 1450. He was the first to discover the Cape of Good Hope.
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Bartolomeu Dias Bartolomeu Dias. Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first man to have sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Dias did not set out on the journeys which made him famous until he was in his thirties. All that is known about Dias’s life before his time as an explorer is that he was in charge of some of King João II’s warehouses. Also, he had only made a single voyage aboard a warship. Sometime in 1486, however, the king tasked him with leading an expedition to discover a route to India by sea. With a small fleet of three ships, Dias set sail in August of the following year. The party at first followed the route discovered a few years earlier by Diogo Cão, which ended at what is now Namibia.
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Famous Explorers Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who first discovered that the West Indies and Brazil were not part of Asia as initally thought, but rather a whole new continent. The new continent was named America, which is believed to be derived from his first name. Vasco da Gama (1460-1524) Nationality: Portuguese Known For: First European to reach India by sea Vasco da Gama commanded the very first ships that sailed nonstop from Europe to India. This voyage also made him the first European to get to India by sea. His finding of this route led to great increases in trade and boosted the Portuguese economy. Francisco Pizarro (1471-1541)
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First contact with Rapa Nui/Easter Island With his three ships, Eagles, Thienhoven and the African Galley, the Dutch Admiral, Jacob Roggeveen (1659 - 1729), went in search of the Southern Continent in August 1721. Until his southerly travels were prevented by ice floes, he managed to make the latitude of 60o.
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Amerigo Vespucci While in Spain, Amerigo Vespucci began working on ships and ultimately went on his first expedition as a navigator in 1499. This expedition reached the mouth of the Amazon River and explored the coast of South America. Vespucci was able to calculate how far west he had traveled by observing the conjunction of Mars and the Moon. On his second voyage in 1501, Amerigo Vespucci sailed under the Portuguese flag. After leaving Lisbon, it took Vespucci 64 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean due to light winds.
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Naming Australia Matthew Flinders was the first to circumnavigate the continent, and chart the 'unknown coast.' By 1803 the complete outline of the Great Southern Land was mapped, but Flinders' detention at Mauritius delayed the publication of his journal and atlas until their eventual appearance in 1814.
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- Born in Coimbra in 1465 Portuguese missionary and explorer. He was one of the first Europeans to visit Ethiopia. He was send to by King Manuel as an embassador. He wrote the first document in Europe about this part of the world.
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Who Was the First Person to Travel Around the World? Quick Answer. The expedition led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was the first to completely circumnavigate the globe, although Magellan himself was unable to finish the trip. He was killed by hostile forces in the Philippines in 1521, leaving his men to make the return trip home without him. Continue Reading
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History Now Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493. View this item in the Collection. On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador; the natives called it Guanahani. For nearly five months, Columbus explored the Caribbean, particularly the islands of Juana (Cuba) and Hispaniola (Santo Domingo), before returning to Spain.
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- Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to circumnavigate the  world. After departing Portugal, he sailed down the west coast of  South America, south of the continent, th … en across to Southeast  Asia.
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The First Black Britons More famous yet was Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-1797), a former slave who went on to become a radical reformer and best-selling author. In 1773 he became the first black person to explore the Arctic when he sailed, on the same ship as Horatio Nelson, on Lord Mulgrave's famous expedition to find a passage to India.
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- Question and answer. Q: Which Portuguese explorer achieved the goal of sailing around the southern tip of Africa? A. Prince Henry the Navigator B. Fernao Gomes C. Diogo Cao D. Bartholomeu Dias. A: Bartholomeu Dias achieved the goal of sailing around the southern tip of Africa. Log in to see more information.
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Who was the first European sailor to reach Asia going around Africa? 10 years later, in 1498, Vasco da Gama was the admiral of the major portuguese expedition, political and military, that did reached India so he can be considered the first european to sail from Europe to Asia around Africa. Source(s): I'm portuguese.
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Who was the first to circumnavigate the world and sailed for Spain from 1509 - 1522? It is believed, however, that Magellan's slave Enrique was from the Philippines since he cold speak the local dialect when they arrived there. This would make him the first person to complete a circumnavigation of the world, although only his voyage from Spain to the Philippines was in a Spanish ship. Ferdinand Magellan was the fist leader of the expedition, but died in the Philippines. The master of the ship when it sailed back into Seville was Juan Sebastián Elcano.
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European exploration of Africa Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic route to the Indies. From his residence in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, he directed successive expeditions to circumnavigate Africa and reach India.he geography of North Africa has been reasonably well known since classical antiquity in Greco-Roman geography. Northwest Africa (the Maghreb) was known as either Libya or Africa, while Egypt was considered part of Asia.
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Sir Francis Drake (c.1540 - c.1596) Sir Francis Drake © Drake was an Elizabethan sailor and navigator, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon in around 1540 and went to sea at an early age. In 1567, Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World'.
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5 teens who have sailed around the world solo AHOY: On Jan. 21, Laura Dekker became the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe alone. (Photo: Agence France-Presse). The first people to sail a ship around the world were the handful of survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, which was completed in 1522.
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Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator that discovered the sea route to India and was the first European navigator to sail through the Bojador.
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European exploration of Africa Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic route to the Indies. From his residence in the Algarve region of southern Portugal, he directed successive expeditions to circumnavigate Africa and reach India.
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South Africa The first Europeans to reach South Africa were the Portuguese, who named the end of the country Cape of Good Hope in 1488, when they managed to sail around it to reach India. Permanent European settlement was only built at Cape Town after the Dutch East India Company reached the Cape of Good Hope in April 1652.
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Exploration of North America In 1524, Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed for King Francis I of France and is known as the first European since the Norse to explore the Atlantic coast of North America.
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- Christopher Columbus was a man who is known as a navigator who sailed around the world with his three ships, Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria.He was the first European that sailed …to North America after the vikings.
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- Lott Carey would become one of America’s first missionaries and the first black Baptist missionary to go to Africa. The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the Nautilus was a long forty-four day journey. Lott Carey, with his family and missionary church, would arrive in Freetown, Sierra Leone in March of 1821.
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Australian History The first European sightings of Australia were made by a Dutchman called Willem Janszoon on the Duyfken (Little Dove). Janszoon sailed into the Australian waters charting 300 km of the coast on the journey. Janszoon also met with the Aboriginal people on the journey. Janszoon was the first recorded European to achieve such feats.