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John Oxenham was English explorer. John Oxenham was the first non-Spanish European explorer to cross the Isthmus of Panama in 1575, climbing the coastal cordillera to get to the Pacific Ocean, then referred to by the Spanish as the Mar del Sur. Read more on Wikipedia →

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