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Bartolomeu Dias [a] (c. 1450 – 29 May 1500) was a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 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 lies in the open ocean, well to the west of the African coast.
Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 – 1500) is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean. Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) was an Italian explorer who led an expedition to the New World in 1492.
A statue of Dias in Cape Town lies at the intersection of Heerengracht and Coen Steytler Boulevards. On 12 March 1960, the statue was unveiled on the front lawn of the South African National Gallery in Company's Garden.
The Cape of Good Hope was first reached by Bartolomeu Dias on 12 March 1488, opening the important sea route to India and the Far East, but European exploration of Africa itself remained very limited during the 16th and 17th centuries.
In 1487-87, Bartolomeu Dias (or Bartholomew Dias) a Portuguese navigator sailed south along the coast of Southern Africa as far as the Orange River, was blown out to sea and made landfall at Mossel Bay and Algoa Bay. But at the Fish River his men refused to go any further.
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Dias helped in the construction of the São Gabriel and its sister ship, the São Rafael that were used by Vasco da Gama to sail past the Cape of Good Hope and continue to India. [4] One of the sailors, Bartolomeu Dias, passed the Cape of Good Hope and the southernmost point of Africa in 1488.
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