European Explorer???

Question

I have a question:
Who was the first European explorer to travel from Europe overland to the Pacific Ocean?

thank you for answering!(if you do)

Answer 1

MARCO POLO!!!

Answer 2

It was NOT Marco Polo. I would say Drake or de Albuquerque, depending on the roads (West or East).

A Spanish and Portuguese monopoly of the new trade routes stimulated attempts to find other passages to the East and was soon challenged by English and Dutch voyages in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Most of the major islands of the Pacific and the coastline of Australia became known to Europeans through the voyages of Francis Drake, Abel Tasman, William Dampier, James Cook, Vitus Bering, George Vancouver, and others.

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