Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches what would become known as the Pacific Ocean.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a Spanish explorer, governor, conquistador, adelantado, and a pirate. He is best known for being the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean while crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1513.
Watch: 25th September 1513: Balboa becomes the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World
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Sources and further reading: Wikipedia — Vasco Núñez de Balboa (CC BY-SA). Images: Wikimedia Commons.
