Question: Who fathered the man who led the first expedition to reach Asia by sailing across the body of water containing the island where Kalaheo is located?

the written history of the cape colony in what is now south africa began when portuguese navigator bartolomeu dias became the first modern european to round the cape of good hope in 1488. in 1497, vasco da gama sailed along the whole coast of south africa on his way to india, landed at st helena bay for 8 days, and made a detailed description of the area. the portuguese, attracted by the riches of asia, made no permanent settlement at the cape colony. however, the dutch east india company (voc) settled the area as a location where vessels could restock water and provisions. <SEP> The Portuguese Vasco da Gama, accompanied by Nicolau Coelho and Bartolomeu Dias, is the first European to reach India by an all - sea route from Europe. <SEP> Doi was the first son of Japanese immigrants, born in Ewa on the island of Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands in 1903. He moved with his family to the island of Kauai, and he thereafter considered Kalaheo, Kauai his home. <SEP> explorer james clark ross passed through what is now known as the ross sea and discovered ross island (both of which were named after him) in 1841. he sailed along a huge wall of ice that was later named the ross ice shelf. mount erebus and mount terror are named after two ships from his expedition: hms erebus and terror. mercator cooper landed in east antarctica on 26 january 1853.during the nimrod expedition led by ernest shackleton in 1907, parties led by edgeworth david became the first to climb mount erebus and to reach the south magnetic pole. douglas mawson, who assumed the leadership of the magnetic pole party on their perilous return, went on to lead several expeditions until retiring in 1931. in addition, shackleton and three other members of his expedition made several firsts in december 1908 – february 1909: they were the first humans to traverse the ross ice shelf, the first to traverse the transantarctic mountains (via the beardmore glacier), and the first to set foot on the south polar plateau. an expedition led by norwegian polar explorer roald amundsen from the ship fram became the first to reach the geographic south pole on 14 december 1911, using a route from the bay of whales and up the axel heiberg glacier. one month later, the doomed scott expedition reached the pole. <SEP> With a long-term mean discharge of 216 cubic feet (6.12 cubic meters) per second, in terms of water flow it is the second-largest river in the state; although its watershed of is only sixth-largest on Kauai, it encompasses areas of the highest recorded rainfall on the planet and plunges precipitously from its headwaters at above sea level. The Hanalei River on the island of Kauai in Hawaii flows north from the eastern slopes of Mount Waialeale for until it reaches the Pacific Ocean at Hanalei Bay as an estuary. <SEP> Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu. He rose in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago. Estêvão da Gama was appointed "alcaide-mór" (civil governor) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478; after that he continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region.