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Search:The WebTripod Free Online Golf Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites « Previous | Top 100 | Next » Vasco Núñez de Balboa --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Spain, (1475-1519) .Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see (and stand in the waters of) the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean, on September 13, 1513 ...

Vasco Nuñez de Balboa Discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, Balboa began his adventurous life as a member of Bastida's crew. He first settled in Hispañola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti). To escape his creditors there, Balboa stowed away on a voyage to Panama in 1510. There were, at that time, about 800 Spaniards living on the isthmus, whose numbers were soon down to 60; due to the perils of jungle life. Antigua del Darien, the first city to be duly constituted by the Spanish cr ...