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Vasco Nunez de Balboa was born at Xerxes, in Spain, in 1475. His first trip to America was made in 1500. Ten years later he went to Darien, Panama, where he became Mayor of a new settlement. In 1512 he was named governor of San Domingo. While governor of San Domingo Balboa learned from the Indians that there was a great sea lying to the SOUTH and west, and in September, 1513, set out from Darien to discover it. On September 25th, he stood on a jungle mountain top from which he first saw what we now call the Pacific Ocean. On the 29th of that very month he marched into the surf in full armor with sword in hand and claimed "this SOUTH sea and its territories" for his sovereigns. He called it the South sea because it was to the south of where his expedition began in San Domingo.
I beleive that when Vasco Balboa saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time, he called it the South Sea, thinking it was the waters to the south of Spain.
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