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15th century
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First European to reach India by sea in 1498
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Vasco da Gama
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Credited with discovering Brazil in 1500
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Pedro Álvares Cabral
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Patron of explorers, sponsored voyages along the West African coast and established a school of navigation at Sagres
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Prince Henry the Navigator
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First European to sail around the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488
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Bartolomeu Dias
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Discovered and settled the Madeira Islands in 1418 - 1420
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João Gonçalves Zarco
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First European to sail past Cape Bojador in 1434
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Gil Eanes
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Explored the West African coast and discovered Cape Verde in 1460s
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Diogo Gomes
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Possibly discovered parts of North America in the 1470s
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João Vaz Corte-Real
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Explored the West African coast sailing up the Congo and Zaire rivers in the 1480s
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Diogo Cão
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Diplomat and spy that explored trade routes to India and Ethiopia in 1487 - 1490s
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Pêro da Covilhã
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Explorered the Northeast coasts of North America, including the large Labrador peninsula in 1498
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João Fernandes Lavrador
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16th century
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Explored the South Atlantic in the 1500s and gave his name to the remote Atlantic islands
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Tristão da Cunha
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Governor of Portuguese India, conquered Goa (India), Malacca (Malaysia), and Ormuz (Persian Gulf) in the 1510s
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Afonso de Albuquerque
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Led the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519 - 1522
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Claimed to be the first European to set foot in Japan in the 1540s
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Fernão Mendes Pinto
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Led secret Portuguese voyages, possibly reaching Australia in the 1520s
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Cristóvão de Mendonça
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17th century
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Bandeirante that explored the Amazon and interior of South America in the 1600s
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António Raposo Tavares
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Led the first European expedition up the entire Amazon River in the 1630s
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Pedro Teixeira
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19th century
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Explored Africa, becoming one of the first Europeans to cross the continent from west to east in the 1870s - 1880s
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Alexandre de Serpa Pinto
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Explored central Africa and mapped a route from Angola to Mozambique in the 1870s–1880s
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Hermenegildo Capelo
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Roberto Ivens
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20th century
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Completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic, flying from Portugal to Brazil in 1922
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Gago Coutinho
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Sacadura Cabral
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