On the other hand, his discovery of the sea route to India made possible successful, future Portuguese trade.Ī map of Africa from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia, published in Basel, Switzerland in 1559. His most notable discovery happened during his 1497-1499 expedition where he successfully found sea route to India circumventing the African continent. His gifts to its ruler were not impressive enough. ĭa Gama’s attempt to trade in Calicut wasn’t very successful. He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean. The Latin text in the bottom left-hand corner of the map tells the tale of Vasco da Gama. Dias' discovery paved the way for Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India. Ptolemy had been wrong to think that the Indian Ocean was land-locked. His voyage showed that the Atlantic and Indian Oceans flowed into each other. In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias sailed around the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope). After sailing down the western coast of Africa and rounding the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco da Gama was born in the Alentejo coastal town of Sines about 1469. Vasco-de-Gama a Portuguese explorer discovered the sea route to India In 1498. Münster’s map on the right reflects the discoveries of Portuguese explorers, Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama. 1469 1524), Portuguese explorer, first count of Vidigueira, and 'discoverer' of the sea route to India.
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