Who first saw the Pacific Ocean?

The Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa is generally credited with being the first European to see the Pacific Ocean. In September 1513, Balboa led an expedition from the Atlantic coast of Panama across the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean, which he named the "South Sea".

What was the significance of u-boat in world war 2?

What does the Peloponnesian War mean?

Why is it said that the Founding Mothers of Australia were prostitutes?
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Faith Bandler, Australian activist
Australian writer and activist, Faith Bandler (1918 – 2015) organized a campaign for Aboriginal citizenship and worked for the recognition of crimes committed against local populations. The blackbirders Faith Bandler was born on September 27, 1918 as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing, in Tumbulgum, New
The Māori:A Silenced Heart of New Zealand
When you think of people from New Zealand, what do you envision? White people? Maybe semi-British, semi-Australian sounding people? Maybe a famous person from a movie youve seen or love? Thats exactly what I used to imagine in my mind. And because of colonialism and globalization, its almost exactly
New dating techniques reveal the oldest known cave painting in Australia, and it's a kangaroo
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