Alvise Cadamosto—explorer
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Explorer in 1400s: Alvise Cadamosto to Africa Piestro Marire (Peter Martyr) collected reports from new world for Ferdinand and Isabella.
http://www.msu.edu/course/atl/125/fernandez/smedley.htm
Alvise Cadamosto on Wikipedia, and our 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica disclaimer. CADAMOSTO (or Ca Da Mosto), ALVISE (1432-1477), a Venetian explorer, navigator and writer, celebrated for his voyages in the Portuguese service to West Africa.
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Alvise Cadamosto __ "Venetian explorer, navigator and writer, celebrated for his voyages in the Portuguese service to West Africa.
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Alvise Cadamosto, an Italian in the service of Portugal, captained an expedition to the Gambia River for the purpose of establishing trade with the local Mandinkas.
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Alvise Da Cadamosto was a Venetian explorer. He was born in 1432 and died in 1477. He explored the west coast of Africa as far south as the Rio Grande, and discovered the Cape Verde Islands in 1457.
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Alvise Cadamosto, sailing under the Portuguese flag, was the first person to discover the uninhabited Cape Verde islands in 1456 - the island of "Boa Vista" first of all.
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Alvise Cadamosto explored the Atlantic coast of Africa and discovered several islands of the Cape Verde archipelago between 1455 and 1456. In his first voyage, which started on March 22 1455, he visited the Madeira Islands and the Canary Islands. On the second voyage, in 1456, Cadamosto became the first European to reach the Cape Verde Islands.
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