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2023-09-02 00:08:54 UTC - HELPFUL
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According to Encyclopaedia Britannica this is incorrect. Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese *navigator* and an *explorer* whose voyages to India (1497–99, 1502–03, 1524) opened up the sea route from western Europe to the East by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Source: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama
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