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Vasco Nuñez de Balboa

explorer of the Pacific

by Steven Otfinoski

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Describes the life of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean and who conceived the idea of a canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific.

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