OTHER EXPLORERS

-Vasco Nuñez de Balboa:
 
     Vasco Nuñez de Balboa was born in 1475 in the frontier town of  Jerez de los Caballeros.
     It was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from its  eastern  coast and the first European city to establish a    permanent American mainlands.
    He died in January 1519, in Acla, Panamá.
   

-Amerigo Vespucci:
     
   Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454 in Florence.
    He died in 1512 in Seville.
      He held important positions in the House of Trade in Seville,        which was named "Chief Pilot" in 1508; but its universal fame is    due to two works published under his name between 1503 and        1505: the Mundus Novus and the letter to Soderini, who            attributed   a leading role in the discovery of America and its    identification as a new continent. For this reason the    cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in his map of 1507 coined        the name "America" in his honor as a designation for the New    World.
   

-Ferdinand magellan:

   Ferdinand Magellan was born in 1480 in Portugal.
    He died in 1521 in the Philippine Islands.
    It was a military, marine and Portuguese navigator of noble      lineage, named by Hispanic Monarchy advance, commander in  chief of the "Armada for discovering the spices' and knight of the    Order of Santiago.
      The service of Charles I, discovered the natural channel    navigable today called Strait of Magellan, the first European to go  sailing from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, previously  called South Sea. He began the expedition, led to his death by Juan  Sebastian Elcano, to achieve the first circumnavigation of the    Earth in 1522.
    

-Juan Sebastián Elcano:

   He was born in 1476 in Guipuzcoa.
    He died in 1526 in the Pacific Ocean.
     He was a Spanish sailor who participated in the first round the      world, being at the head of the expedition after the death of        Ferdinand Magellan.