Gil Eanes (or Eannes, in the old Portuguese spelling; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈʒil iˈɐnɨʃ]) was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer. Gil...

Eanes is a Portuguese surname. Notable people with this surname include: António Ramalho Eanes (born 1936), Portuguese politician Gil Eanes (fl. c. 1450)...

with excellent seafaring capabilities. Lagos was also the home port for Gil Eanes who was the first to sail beyond Cape Bojador in 1434, after a failed...

occasionally it appears written with the modern spelling Gil Eanes. Between 1955 and 1973, Gil Eannes was the flagship of the Portuguese White Fleet that...

holding an armillary sphere (center). To his left, Jácome de Maiorca and Pedro Escobar; to his right, Pero de Alenquer, Gil Eanes and João Gonçalves Zarco....

exist somewhere to the east. In 1434, one of Prince Henry's captains, Gil Eanes, passed this obstacle. Once this psychological barrier had been crossed...

Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator dispatched a mission in 1435, under Gil Eanes and Baldaia, to find the legendary River of Gold in western Africa. Going...

Brazilian racing driver and team owner Gil Eanes, Portuguese explorer Gil Elvgren (1914-1980), American pin-up artist Gil Evans (1912-1988), Canadian jazz pianist...

: 82  The school was closed in 1937, and reopened the same year as Liceu Gil Eanes. After 1968, when this school moved to a new building, it housed the Escola...

mariner Gil Eanes was considered a major breakthrough for European explorers and traders en route to Africa and later to India.[citation needed] Eanes had...