Chapter XIV- Portugal in the World of Maritime Discoveries

Australia and New Zealand

The Portuguese explorer, Cristóvão Mendonça in 1521 departs from Malacca on an expedition to discover the golden islands, located south of East India, but ends up discovering Australia and New Zealand

Picture 1- Cristóvão Mendonça

The trip to Australia was kept secret because this territory did not belong to Portugal, according to what was stipulated in the Treaty of Tordesilhas. Reason why there is no documentary evidence of the Portuguese discovery to Australia

Picture 2- Map of  Australia and New Zealand

In a publication in the Australian newspaper "The Sydney Morning Herald" on 19 March 2007 journalist Peter Trickett confirms the veracity of the Portuguese presence on Australian soil, since according to a study of this journalist on a world map or map of Dieppe, Mundi that were produced in the city of Dieppe, France, in the sixteenth century based on the Portuguese maps) we can see that on the coast lestes and south Australians there are 120 names of localities in Portuguese and not in English or any other language.

Another thesis of the historian and philosopher Carl Von Brandestein, says that the Portuguese presence may indeed have occurred since in some Australian tribes there was the assimilation of Portuguese words such as turtle and mound.

As for the discovery of Cristóvão Mendonça to New Zealand, there is still no more solid historical evidence


Curiosity Note: I researched in the newspaper "The Sydney Morning Herald", where I found in the newspaper archive, several reports about the Portuguese presence in Australia being the first one of the Dutch.



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