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PORTUGAL. Lisbon. A frigate patrols the waters
NUхZ DE BALBOA, Vasco (1475-1517). Spanish discoverer" NUх Z DE BALBOA, Vasco (1475-1517). Spanish discoverer and conqueror. Picture from the book " Retratos de Varones Ilustres" (Portrait of Distinguished Men). Engraving."
GAMA, Vasco da (1469-1524). Portuguese navigator. Painting
Spain. Second Republic. Money issued by the government of the Basque Country. Coin. SPAIN. Barcelona. Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia
Sarcophagus of Vasco da Gama, LisbonSarcophagus of Vasco da Gama in the Vasco da Gama Cathedral, Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. Date: 2010
Balboa / ExplorationVasco Nunez de Balboa is attacked by natives on his way to the Cordilleras Date: 16th century
BALBOA (1475 - 1517)VASCO NUNEZ DE BALBOA Spanish explorer of South America. Discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513. Date: 1475 - 1517
Cannanore, India(or Kananur) Seaport on Malabar coast, SW India, visited by Vasco da Gama 1498, Portuguese fort built here in 1505
Porto Trade CentreVasco da Gama, by rounding the Cape of Good Hope and discovering the Indies, makes Porto (aka Oporto) one of Europes foremost trading centres
Doorway of the Monastery at Belem, PortugalIllustration of the Doorway of the Convento dos Jeronymos Monastery, Belem, Portugal. This monastery was built on the site of a Seamans Home founded by Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco Da Gama & SpiritAt the Cape of Storms (later Good Hope) Adamastor, the spirit of the Cape, appears to Gamas crew and warns of disasters to all who seek to sail round the Cape to India
Meyerbeer Africaine Lib6Act five - Selika, queen of Madagascar, watches her husband Vasco da Gama sail away with Ines, and sits under a manchineel tree, to breathe whose scent is fatal
Meyerbeer Africaine Lib5Act four - Vasco da Gama marries Selika, queen of Madagascar; but even as he swears the marriage oath he hears his beloved Ines lamenting her misfortunes
Meyerbeer Africaine Lib3Act three - the warriors of Selika, queen of Madagascar, board Don Pedros ship and massacre the Portuguese : Vasco survives, but only just
Meyerbeer Africaine Lib2Act two - Ines, in love with Vasco da Gama, delivers him from imprisonment by the Inquisition but only by consenting to marry Don Pedro
Meyerbeer Africaine Lib1Act one - Vasco da Gama before the Grand Council of the king of Portugal tells the story of his explorations and petitions for an expedition to sail round the Cape to the Indies
Vasco Da Gama ShipsVasco da Gamas ships off the coast of Africa on their way to the Indies
Vasco Da GamaVASCO DA GAMA - Portuguese navigator who rounds Africa to reach Calicut, India, in May 1498, the first European to set foot in India
Vasco Da Gama and CrewVASCO DA GAMA on his way to the East, he refuses his crews pleas to return to Portugal
Vasco da Gama meeting Christians at Sao TomeVasco da Gama meets Christians at Sao Tome, an island in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa