Recall the achievements of Portuguese explorers

Portuguese discoveries is the name given to the maritime exploration by the portuguese during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Some of those achievements:

João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discovered Porto Santo island in the Madeira group

Gil Eanes sailed round Cape Bojador

Diogo Afonso discovered the islands of the Cape Verde group

Diogo Cão reached the estuary of the Zaire

Bartolomeu Dias round the Cape of Good Hope and entered the Indian Ocean

Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut

Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil on his way to India

Returning from India, Vasco da Gama discoveres the Almirante Islands (Seychelles)

Fernão Mendes Pinto, Diogo Zeimoto and Cristovão Borralho, became the first Europeans to reach Japan