Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.
The record lists Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia as Portuguese explorer (14__-1481).
Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia was born at Porto in 1415. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Portugal.
The Age of Discovery was driven by Iberian crowns, the caravel and the search for a sea route to the spice trade - and it opened the Atlantic world with consequences its sailors never intended.
He is recorded as explorer.
The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.
Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia died in 1481, aged 66. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer
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