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Noun: Vasco Nunez de Balboa
  1. Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)
    - Balboa

Type of: navigator

Encyclopedia: Vasco Nunez de Balboa