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      Historical accounts indicate that the eastern Pacific Ocean was first sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century. Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it Mar del Sur (South Sea). The ocean's current name was provided by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the Spanish expedition of world circumnavigation in 1521, who encountered favourable winds as he reached the ocean and called it Mar Pacifico in Portuguese, meaning "peaceful sea".


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        Historical accounts indicate that the eastern Pacific Ocean was first sighted by Europeans early in the 16th century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean

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          vasco nunez de balboa

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            ROMOS

            Who'd uv thunk?
            commented 11 years ago


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