- Portuguese navigator: discovered the sea route from Portugal around the continent of Africa to India.
- Vasco da (ˈvæskəʊ də). ?1469–1524, Portuguese navigator, who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India around the Cape of Good Hope (1498)
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