Dinis Dias

Dinis Dias

Dinis Dias was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer who sailed down the coast of West Africa, passing the Senegal River and reaching the Cape Verde Peninsula for the first time. In 1445, as Dias was beginning to enter old age and made the decision to take up exploring because "he was unwilling to let himself grow soft in the well being of repose", left Portugal and sailed down the West African coast, setting a new record by reaching a point about 800 kilometres south of Cap Blanc. This, the most westerly part of the African continent, he named Cap-Vert (Dias named it Cabo Verde, "verde" being Portuguese for "green", a reference to the lush vegetation in the area). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dinis Dias has received more than 35,252 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Dinis Dias is the 229th most popular explorer (up from 231st in 2019).