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  • NAME: Vasco da Gama
  • OCCUPATION: Explorer
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1460
  • DEATH DATE: December 24, 1524
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Sines, Portugal
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Cochin, India
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Vasco da Gama was a navigator whose voyages to India opened up the sea route from western Europe to the East.

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Vasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon in July 1497, took a long detour through the South Atlantic and rounded the Cape of Good Hope. In May 1498, he and his fleet reached India. Making it back to Lisbon on September 9, of da Gama's original crew of 170, only 55 men had survived. Da Gama took two more voyages to India, opening up the sea route from western Europe to the East via the Cape of Good Hope.

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