Chapter VIII- Portugal in the World of Maritime Discoveries

3rd Part


( S. Tomé and Principe, North  America and Canada )

In 1470 or 1472 Portuguese navigators: João de Santarém, Pêro Escobar and Fernão de Pó discovered the islands of S. Tomé, Ano-Bom and Príncipe.
Ano-Bom is a small island that belongs to Equatorial Guinea.

Picture 1- Map of S.Tomé and Príncipe

Picture 2- S. Tomé and Príncipe

North America

João Vaz Corte- Real was a Portuguese navigator linked to the discovery of New Land   (Canada and USA)
He was sent in 1473 by King Afonso V to Denmark to take part in an expedition to reach Greenland
He organized trips that took him to North America, exploring the banks of the Hudson River (situated in New York) to Canada.

Corte-Real will have arrived in North America 19 years before Christopher Columbus, but there is no documentary evidence and I will explain why: at the time of the discoveries the other kingdoms were busy with internal problems, to avoid competitiveness many of the Portuguese sea voyages were carried out with great secrecy, which is why there are now gaps in Universal History, and contemporary historians are investigating who were the first Europeans to reach North America.
At the moment we can consider that the first European to arrive to North America, was Court Real.

João Corte-Real died in Angra do Heroísmo in 1496. He had three children: Gaspar, Miguel and Vasco Anes Corte Real
In 1500 his son, the elder Gaspar Corte - Real, first arrived in Newfoundland, but in 1501 he left on a second expedition to this land and never returned.
In 1502, part Miguel, looking for his Brother in Newfoundland, but also never returned nor was never seen again.
The proof of the Portuguese presence in North America is present in the Dighton stone, where a Portuguese-American doctor, Manuel Luciano Silva, recognized and identified in this stone the date of 1511, the test hitherto ignored in how Miguel Corte-Real was present in the North America, because on the stone was the insignia of the identical crosses used in the candles of caravels and Portuguese ships

Picture 3- João Vaz Corte-Real

Picture 4- Dighton Stone, USA, proof of Portuguese presence on American soil

At the moment this stone is in the Museum of the Stone of Dighton

Picture 5- Dighton Stone Museum, Massachusetts, USA

João Fernandes Lavrador: along with Pedro de Barcelos, and both were the first to see the coast of Canada to which they gave the name of Coast of the Lavrador in 1492. This name of this coast was given in homage to this navigator and Portuguese explorer becoming The first owner of this territory and being one of the oldest names in Canada.
Fernandes designed representative maps of the Southwest Coast of Greenland and northwestern North America

Picture 6- Map of Canada, red is the Lavrador's Coast



Picture 7- Landscape of the Lavrador's Coast, Canada




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