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Vasco Nunez de Balboa and the Discovery of the South Sea

Marcovitz, Hal.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa and the Discovery of the South Sea - Philadelphia Chelsea House Publishers 2002 - 64p.: col. ill.

On September 26, 1513, the Spanish soldier Vasco Nunez de Balboa climbed slowly to the top of a mountain ridge. When he reached the top, he could see the blue waters of a great ocean which he called the South Sea. Balboa and his men had become the first Europeans to see the water that would one day be named the Pacific Ocean.

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