A MOMENT IN HISTORY
Bartolomeu Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
1488 CE · South Africa, Africa · Exploration
Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In February 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships is to go diagonally southwest in the open ocean, well to the west of the African coast.
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