Who was the Portuguese sailor who passed the tip of Africa and continued to India?

1 Answer
Aug 6, 2017

Vasco da Gama was the first one to round the Cape of Good Hope and continue on to India.

Explanation:

In January, 1488 Bartholomeu Dias unknowingly rounded the southern tip of Africa in a great storm. He and his fleet of three ships finally anchored in what is now known as Mossel Bay. He followed the coast northward to just east of present day Port Elizabeth. Then his rebellious crew forced him to turn back.

Using the charts and information obtained by Dias, Vasco da Gama left Lisbon with a fleet of four ships on 8 July 1497. They passed the easternmost point reached by Dias 16 December and continued northward, looting Arab ships in Mombasa, half way up the African east coast. There they took on an Arab pilot and reached Calicut, on the west coast of India, 20 May 1498.
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