Bartolomeu Dias

-1450- 29 May, 1500
-Portugese Explorer
-His first exploration: 1488
-Led the first European exploration to the
Cape of Good Hope
-First to sail to the tip of Africa
-Before Cape of Good Hope was named, he
named it Cape of Storms, where Atlantic Ocean
and Indian Ocean meets.
-Open the route for people to go from Europe
to Asia.
- Got lost at the sea in 1500.