EXPLORER

Pero Escobar

1401 - 1501

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Pedro Escobar, also known as Pero Escobar, was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator who discovered São Tomé (December 21, 1471), Annobón (January 1, 1472), Príncipe (January 17, 1472) islands, together with João de Santarém c. 1470. He is then recorded sailing with Diogo Cão on his first voyage in 1482, and as the pilot of the famous Bérrio caravel on Vasco da Gama's first expedition in 1497 to sail directly from Europe to India. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pero Escobar has received more than 5,268 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pero Escobar is the 249th most popular explorer.

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Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Pero Escobar ranks 249 out of 498. Before him are Cristoforo Buondelmonti, Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Lady Hester Stanhope, Rodrigo de Jerez, Edward Bransfield, and Juan de Garay. After him are Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Thorvald Eiriksson, Antoine Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Snorri Thorfinnsson, Carl Anton Larsen, and Hjalmar Johansen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1401, Pero Escobar ranks 16. Before him are Stephen Zápolya, Badi' al-Zaman Mirza, Koca Davud Pasha, George Sphrantzes, Mesih Pasha, and Jorge Álvares. After him are Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein, and Henricus Martellus Germanus. Among people deceased in 1501, Pero Escobar ranks 8. Before him are John I Albert, Agostino Barbarigo, Gaspar Corte-Real, Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria, Mesih Pasha, and Constantine Lascaris. After him are Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine, Margaret of Thuringia, and Konstantin Mihailović.

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