Bartolomeu dias route he took

Late 15th-century Portuguese maritime explorer

Bartolomeu Dias 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 route he took

His discoveries effectively established the sea route between Europe and Asia.

Early life

Bartolomeu Dias was born around 1450 in the Faro District of Portugal. His family had a maritime background, and one of his ancestors, Dinis Dias, explored the African coast in the 1440s and discovered the Cap-Vert peninsula in today's Senegal in 1445.

Tracing his biography is complicated by the existence of several contemporary Portuguese seafarers with the same name.^[2] He was clearly a seaman of considerable experience and may have been trading for ivory along the Guinea coast as early as 1478.

In 1481, Dias accompanied an expedition, led b