Vasco Da Gama, the great explorer
- Explorer: Vasco Da Gama
- Birth location: Sines or Vidigueira, Alentejo,Kingdom of Portugal
- Death Location: Kochim, Portuguese India
- Buried Location: Jerónimos Monastery, Lisbon,Kingdom of Portugal
- Birth Date: 1460 or 1469
- Death Date: 23 December 1524
- Death Age: 55 or 56
- Founder of: India
Route
Route Vasco Da Gama took:
- sailed down the Africa coast
- sailed into the Atlantic ocean
- sailed back into Africa, to Natal
- sailed up Malindi
- sailed diagonally from Malindi (across Indian Ocean) to India
- sailed back