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vasco nunez de balboa was the first european to see and discover the pacific ocean. he was born in 1475 and he died in 1415. he decided to call the pacific ocean pacific because first of all pacifica is spanish for pacific in english, and also because the pacific ocean was a really quiet and calm for a ocean.

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