The first Euopean in America to see the Pacific Ocean was?

Answer 1

balboa who crossed panama in 1513. balboa is still nowadays a currency in panama

Answer 2

~Giancarlo del Verada was a member of Marco Polo's expedition to the orient. Although Polo stopped in India, and his tales of China are bogus and based on things he heard from folks heading west into India, del Verada continued eastward - first into China and then on to Japan. From Japan, he sailed to the Kuriles and across to the Aluetions. Island hopping from the Aluetions into Alaska and back, he would be the first European to have seen the Pacific from the Norrth American continent. Unfortunately for him, he made the mistake of telling Polo that he, del Verada, was going to blow the whistle on the fraudulent claims of Polo, and Polo had him silenced (cobras came in handy in India even in those days). However, del Verada's memoirs of the trip survived in a Korean monestary (where he stayed on his return journey) and were disclosed in 1328. Bad timing. His story became a pawn in the power struggle between the Pope in Avignon (John the XXII) and the Pope in Rome (Nicholas V). Nicholas, having been elevated to the Roman Papacy in part by the Marco Pol family fortunes, posthumously excommunicated del Verada and labeled his writings as heretical. When the Papacy was reunified with Rome the victor, del Verada remained anathema to the church and his story remains largely unknown. I read his papers while stationed in Korea a few years ago.

Answer 3

Balboa

Answer 4

balboa