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Vasco Núñez de Balboa enters the Pacific Ocean

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Balboa entered the Pacific Ocean here on his South Sea Expedition in 1517. 

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Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – around January 12–21, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific Ocean in 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.

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