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Vasco Nunez de Balboa, crossed the Isthmus of Darien and sighted the pacific.
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Ferdinand Magellan was the first European to cross the pacific
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Jorge de Meneses visited western new guinea, which he called the Ilhas de Papuas
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Francis Drake crossed to Palau before returning to Britain, making the first british circumnavigation.
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British buccaneers, including william dampier, operate in southeast pacific.
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The enlightenment provoked an interest in science and the natural world
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Robinson Crusoe was published
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Jonathon Swift`s novel Gulliver`sTravels published in London partly based on Dampier`s journals and events in the pacific.
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Samuel Wallis is the first man to visit Tahiti.
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James cook arrived at Tahiti to observe the Transit of Venus
