Question: Who fathered the person leading the first expedition to reach the continent having Vadodara by sailing west across the ocean along eastern Russia?

<P0-S0> 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. <P0-S1> He rose in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago. <P0-S2> 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. <SEP> <P1-S0> the terra nova expedition, officially the british antarctic expedition, was an expedition to antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. it was led by robert falcon scott and had various scientific and geographical objectives. <P1-S1> scott wished to continue the scientific work that he had begun when leading the discovery expedition to the antarctic in 1901–1904. <P1-S2> he also wanted to be the first to reach the geographic south pole. <P1-S3> he and four companions attained the pole on 17 january 1912, where they found that the norwegian team led by roald amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. <P1-S4> scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later. <SEP> <P2-S0> The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR; Russian: Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, tr. <P2-S1> Rossiyskaya Sovetskaya Federativnaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika  listen (help·info)) commonly referred to as Soviet Russia or simply as Russia, was a sovereign state in 1917–22, the largest, most populous, and most economically developed republic of the Soviet Union in 1922–91 and a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation in 1990–91. <P2-S2> The Republic comprised sixteen autonomous republics, five autonomous oblasts, ten autonomous okrugs, six krais, and forty oblasts. <P2-S3> Russians formed the largest ethnic group. <P2-S4> To the west it bordered Finland, Norway and Poland; and to the south, China, Mongolia and North Korea whilst bordering the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east and the Black sea and Caspian Sea to the south. <P2-S5> Within the USSR, it bordered the Baltic republics (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia), the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR to the west. <P2-S6> To the south it bordered the Georgian, Azerbaijan and Kazakh SSRs. <SEP> <P3-S0> Vadodara has a professional cricket team, the Baroda cricket team, as well as the oldest cricket ground in Asia, called Moti Baug. <P3-S1> The team has won the Ranji Trophy six times. <P3-S2> Reliance Stadium, a private cricket ground owned by Reliance Industries, hosts ODIs. <P3-S3> Some of the notable cricketer's from Baroda are Atul Bedade, Nayan Mongia, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Hardik Pandya, Kiran More, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Ambati Rayudu.Former Indian pacer Zaheer Khan also grew up here. <SEP> <P4-S0> 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> <P5-S0> asia is the largest continent on earth. <P5-S1> it covers 8.8% of the earth's total surface area (or 30% of its land area), and has the largest coastline, at 62,800 kilometres (39,022 mi). <P5-S2> asia is generally defined as comprising the eastern four - fifths of eurasia. <P5-S3> it is located to the east of the suez canal and the ural mountains, and south of the caucasus mountains (or the kuma -- manych depression) and the caspian and black seas. <P5-S4> it is bounded on the east by the pacific ocean, on the south by the indian ocean and on the north by the arctic ocean. <P5-S5> asia is subdivided into 48 countries, three of them (russia, kazakhstan and turkey) having part of their land in europe.