Luís Vaz de Torres (Galician and Portuguese), or Luis Váez de Torres in the Spanish spelling (born c. 1565; fl. 1607), was a 16th- and 17th-century maritime...

named after the Spanish navigator Luís Vaz de Torres, who sailed through the strait in 1606. The islands of the Torres Strait have been inhabited by humans...

Luis Torres (musician), DJ with Dzeko & Torres Luis de Torres (died 1493), Christopher Columbus's interpreter on his first voyage Luís Vaz de Torres (c...

and on October that year when Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through, and navigated, Torres Strait islands. Twenty-nine other Dutch navigators...

Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (2010). Bartolomeu Dias. William Brooks Greenlee, Pero Vaz de Caminha. England: Viartis. ISBN 978-1-906421-03-8. OCLC 501399584. Ravenstein...

Adolfo Torres, Argentinian entomologist Carlos Torres, Chilean astronomer Leonardo Torres Quevedo, Spanish engineer and mathematician Luis Vaz de Torres, Spanish...

Luís Vaz Pereira Pinto Guedes, 2nd Viscount of Montalegre, was a Portuguese soldier, who served on the absolutist side in Portugal's Liberal Wars. He was...

João Vaz Corte-Real (c. 1420 – 1496) was a Portuguese sailor, claimed by some accounts to have been an explorer of a land called Terra Nova do Bacalhau...

Cape York. Later that year, Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through and navigated the Torres Strait Islands. The Dutch charted the whole of...

Luís Vaz de Camões (European Portuguese: [luˈiʒ ˈvaʒ ðɨ kaˈmõjʃ]; c. 1524 or 1525 – 10 June 1580), sometimes rendered in English as Camoens or Camoëns...

Parish in the Coastal Ostrobothnia. October – Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait. November 11 – The Peace of Zsitvatorok...

June 2023, retrieved 30 June 2023 "A viagem de circum-navegação de Fernão de Magalhães", Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (in European Portuguese), 4 September...

Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres. In 1668, the Spaniards founded...

Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres, who was the first European to explore the Strait. When Europeans...

previously discussed. The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz de Camões, largely concerns Vasco da Gama's voyages. The 1865 grand opera...

Porto Santo Island (1419) together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira. The account of his participation in the discovery is disputed by...

Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu; believing them to be Australia, he names them La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo. October – Luís Vaz de Torres...

landed, naming the island Nueva Guinea. In 1606 Portuguese navigator Luís Vaz de Torres sailed in the name of Spain along the southwestern part of the island...

actions were described in The Lusiads, the Portuguese main epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões (Canto X, strophes 40–49). The poet praises his achievements,...

missionary and explorer of Ethiopia Luís Vaz de Torres, 16th-century/17th-century explorer of south-west Pacific Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, 16th-century/17th-century...

there are islands from New Guinea up to the Strait of Magellan)". Luís Vaz de Torres, a Spanish navigator who commanded the San Pedro y San Pablo, the...

of the Pacific Ocean Luís Vaz de Torres (1565–1607), navigator and explorer, first European who saw Australia Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira (1542–1595), navigator...

Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres. Willem Janszoon, made the first completely documented European landing...

Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, named after navigator Luís Vaz de Torres. Dutch explorers, sailing around southern Africa, also engaged in...

first Captain-major). Together with his fellow fleet commanders, Tristão Vaz Teixeira and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, he initiated the colonization of the...

Portuguese Barros, João de. Décadas da Ásia, Década I. bk. III., esp. ch. 3; Ruy de Pina, Chronica d'el Rei D. João II.; Garcia de Resende, Chronica; Luciano...

existence of Torres Strait. The Duyfken was actually in Torres Strait in February 1606, a few months before Spanish explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through...

Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers Espiritu Santo, the largest island in what is now the nation of Vanuatu. 1606 – Luís Vaz de Torres sails through the...

and was believed to be lost at sea. Miguel Corte-Real was a son of João Vaz Corte-Real and a brother of explorer Gaspar Corte-Real, members of the Corte-Real...

Luís Vaz de Torres explored the southern coast of New Guinea from Milne Bay to the Gulf of Papua including Orangerie Bay, which he named Bahía de San...