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    The theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia claims that early Portuguese navigators were the first Europeans to sight Australia between 1521 and 1524...
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  • Cristóvão de Mendonça (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    prominently in relation to a theory that Portuguese mariners visited Australia, during the 16th century. While few surviving Portuguese documents or maps, beyond...
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    the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia, one among several competing theories about the early discovery of Australia, supported by Australian...
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  • Portuguese Australians refers to Australians of Portuguese descent or Portuguese-born people living in Australia. Despite their rather modest number compared...
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    Australia Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (c. 1480-c. 1560), potential discoverer of Terra Australis, around 1504 Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia...
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    according to the theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia. The Portuguese ally with the Sultanate of Ternate and begin the construction of Fort Kastela...
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    territories grew within the Portuguese Empire, Portuguese sovereignty over Macau strengthened and it became a constitutional part of Portuguese territory. Chinese...
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    Vallard Atlas (category Pre-1606 contact with Australia)
    bringing the primacy of Cook's discovery into question. However, the theory that this proves that the Portuguese made contact with Australia is contested...
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  • Juan Fernández (explorer) (category Spanish explorers of the Pacific)
    possibility to probability. Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia Cristóvão de Mendonça Explorers of the Pacific Explorers of Oceania "Juan Fernández"...
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    Sohar (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    entrances to the Arabian Gulf and trade in the region. It was part of a web of fortresses controlled by the Portuguese, from Bahrain to Hormuz, and was depicted...
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    Manuel Godinho de Erédia (category People from the Portuguese East Indies)
    Colombo, Ormuz and Mozambique.) Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia Javanese contact with Australia Jave la Grande Jorge Flores (2015). "Chapter...
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    Endeavour Strait (category Straits of Australia)
    the body to be deepened, but there are no plans for this at the present time. Australia portal Queensland portal Theory of the Portuguese discovery of...
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    Dirk Hartog (category Explorers of Australia)
    fourteen other Australian towns, streets have been named in his honour. Abel Tasman Dieppe maps Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia Giles, Ernest...
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  • Kenneth McIntyre (category European exploration of Australia)
    his main work on early Portuguese exploration of Australia. After its publication in 1977, The Secret Discovery of Australia, which revived and expanded...
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    The Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), also known as the man-of-war or bluebottle, is a marine hydrozoan found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian...
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    Jave la Grande (category European exploration of Australia)
    world map of 1570 as Ins di los Tiburones and ins di S Pedro, the names given them by Magellan. Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia Makassan...
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  • associated with the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia by Kenneth McIntyre in his 1977 book The Secret Discovery of Australia. The most recent research...
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    inhabitants of the more settled regions of the Murray valley "complex hunter gatherers". Although a theory of Portuguese discovery in the 1520s exists...
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    Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes...
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  • Beyond Capricorn (category Portuguese exploration in the Age of Discovery)
    Cook is a 2007 book by journalist Peter Trickett on the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia. Although its thesis is similar to that advanced by...
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    Dieppe maps (category French exploration in the Age of Discovery)
    from Portuguese sources that no longer exist. It has been assumed that Portuguese cartographers were bribed for information of the latest discoveries, despite...
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  • Carl Georg von Brandenstein (category Linguists of Australian Aboriginal languages)
    linguistic thinking. Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia (with A. F. Thomas) Taruru: Aboriginal song poetry from the Pilbara. 1969 (editor)...
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  • 1520s (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
    according to the theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia. The Portuguese ally with the Sultanate of Ternate and begin the construction of Fort Kastela...
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    The Portuguese people (Portuguese: Portugueses – masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country...
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    Loaísa expedition (category Spanish exploration in the Age of Discovery)
    The Loaísa expedition was an early 16th-century Spanish voyage of discovery to the Pacific Ocean, commanded by García Jofre de Loaísa [es] (1490 – 20 July...
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  • Gomes de Sequeira (category Portuguese explorers of the Pacific)
    identified the island as Ulithi in the Caroline Islands. Theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia History of Australia before 1901 Portuguese discoveries Collingridge...
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    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania...
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    The Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapore, presently in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (or in Portuguese São Tomé de Meliapor, in Latin Sancti Thomae de Meliapor)...
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    (1977), The Secret Discovery of Australia; Portuguese discoveries 200 years before Captain Cook. (Souvenir Press, Medindie, South Australia. ISBN 0-285-62303-6)...
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  • Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory...
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