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La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo: Captain Quiros and the discovery of Australia in 1606.(History)
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS ago, on May 14, 1606, Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, a Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain, made landfall on an island which is now part of Vanuatu (formerly New Hebrides). He believed that he had reached the fabled Unknown South Land and, with great ceremony, took possession of it for Spain and Portugal. In fact, in a breathtakingly bold proclamation and with great religious fervour, he took possession of a great part of the whole southern hemisphere. One version of the translated proclamation goes as follows:
Let the heavens, the earth, the waters with all their creatures and all those here present witness that I, Captain ...
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