OTHER EXPLORERS

 Vasco Nuñez de Balboa(1475-1519)

He was a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Ismuth of Panama to the Pacific Oceanin 1513, becoming the first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World.

He traveled to the New World in 1500 and, after some exploration, settled on the island of Hispaniola. He founded the settlement of Santa Maria in present-day Panama in 1510, which was the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas.

         
Amerigo Vespucci(1451-1512):


Born in Florence on March 9 in 1451. He was a great Italian cartographer who worked in the service of Spain and Portugal. In 1489 he moved to Seville to work as manager of a bank branch of the Medici. Shortly after it was associated with Juanoto Berardi, and together helped in the preparations of the first voyage of Christopher Columbus (1492).He died in Seville on February 22, 1512

Ferdinand Magellan(1480–1521):

Born into a wealthy Portuguese family in around 1480, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer and was eventually selected by King to search for a westward route to the "Spices Islands" Commanding a fleet of five vessels, he headed south through the Atlantic Ocean to Patagonia. Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition reached the Spice Islands in 1521 and returned home via the Indian Ocean to complete the first circuit of the globe. Magellan did not complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Macta in the Philippines in 1521.


Juan Sebastián Elcano(1476–1526):


Elcano was born in 1476 to Domingo Sebastián Elcano I and Catalina del Puerto. He had three brothers: Domingo Elcano II, a Catholic priest, Martín Pérez Elcano, and Antón Martín Elcano.
Elcano settled in Seville and became a merchant ship captain. After violating Spanish laws by surrendering a ship to Genoan bankers in repayment of a debt, he sought a pardon from the Spanish king, by signing on as a subordinate officer for the Magellan expedition to the East Indies.