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Even so, it was the Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa who was the first European to notice that the Pacific and the Atlantic were separate oceans. |
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The Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa was the first European to realise that the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean were separated. |
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The first European to recognise the Pacific Ocean as distinct from the Atlantic Ocean was the Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa. |
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Vasco de Balboa of Spain was the first European to discover that the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans were separate. |
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Until the Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa made the discovery, Europeans did not realise that the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean were distinct. |