Everything about Y Igo Ortiz De Retez totally explained
Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (
fl. 1545) was a 16th-century
Spanish maritime explorer, who navigated the northern coastline of the
Pacific -
Melanesian island of
New Guinea, and is credited with bestowing the island's name (
"Nueva Guinea").
Discoveries
On
June 13 1545 Ortiz de Retez, in command of the
San Juan, left port in
Tidore, an island of the
East Indies and sailed to reach the northern coast of the island of
New Guinea, which he ventured along as far as the mouth of the
Mamberamo River. He took possession of the land for the Spanish Crown, in the process giving the island the name by which it's known today. He called it
Nueva Guinea owing to the resemblance of the local inhabitants to the peoples of the
Guinea coast in
West Africa.
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