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	Luis Váez de Torres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Luiz Váez de Torres, Portuguese seaman, remembered chiefly because the Torres Strait separating Australia from Papua New Guinea is named for him.
		In 1612 he sailed from Callao in Spanish Peru as second-in-command to Pedro Fernández de Quirós on their voyage of discovery to the south-west Pacific, with Torres in command of the "San Pedro." In May 1612 they reached the islands which Quirós named Austrialia de Espiritu Santo (now Vanuatu).
		For many years it was assumed that Torres took a route along the New Guinea coast, but in 1980 the Queensland historian and seaman Brett Hilder demonstrated that it was much more likely that Torres took a southerly route, from which he would certainly have seen Cape York, the northernmost extremity of Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luis_Vaez_de_Torres (326 words)

	Luis Vaez de Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Luiz Vaez de Torres, Portuguese seaman, remembered chiefly because the Torres Strait separating Australia from Papua New Guinea is named for him.
		Torres apparently spent the rest of his life in Manila.
		He left a written account of his journey which the Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple saw in 1769, and it was he who named the strait after Torres.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/luis_vaez_de_torres (365 words)

	Encyclopedia: Torres Strait
		The Torres Strait is a body of water which lies between Australia and the Melanesian island of New Guinea.
		Torres Strait Creole (also Torres Strait Pidgin, Torres Strait Broken, Cape York Creole, Lockhart Creole) is a creole language spoken on several Torres Strait Islands (Queensland, Australia).
		The first recorded European navigation of the strait was by Luis Vaez de Torres, a Portuguese seaman who was second-in-command on the expedition of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros who sailed from Peru to the South Pacific in 1605.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Torres-Strait (1928 words)

	Other Spanish explorers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		De Soto was born in the province of Extremadura in Spain.
		Luis Vaez de (loo EES vah AYTH thay) Torres (TAWR rays) (?-1613?), was a Spanish navigator who became the first European to see the strait that lies between Australia and Papua New Guinea.
		Torres knew that a route to the Moluccas lay to the north, but unfavorable winds prevented him from sailing along the peninsula.
	www.worldbook.com /features/explorers/html/newworld_ose.html (2665 words)

	Torres Shire Municipal Library - history of the region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A major change took place in 1912, when the Shire of Torres was abolished; the town of Thursday Island was simultaneously created and, in the same year, many of the islands became "protected" as Aboriginal Reserves.
		In December 1973, Torres Town had been declared encompassing Cape York north of 11 degrees south latitude and a variety of island in the Torres Strait and in 1974 it was renamed the Shire of Torres.
		After almost 49 years of administration by a State Government Administrator, the Torres Shire Council was restored to elected Council status in March 1991 and is now administered by a mainstream local authority Council comprising of a Shire Chairman and 7 Councillors.
	cwpp.slq.qld.gov.au /tilibrary/history.htm (581 words)

	Australian Discovery, edited by Ernest Scott
		[Luis Vaez De Torres commanded the Almirante, one of the two ships despatched from Peru in December 1605 to explore the Pacific.
		Quiros, the commander of the expedition, was under the delusion that he had discovered the great southern continent when he reached the island of Espiritu Santo, in the New Hebrides group.
		Torres, after Quiros sailed back to South America, satisfied himself that it was an island.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /pgaus/ausdisc/ausdisc1-02.html (1331 words)

	Torres Strait General History
		Torres Strait Islanders traded with kinsmen on islands adjacent to Papua New Guinea and further south, exchanging pearl shell, objects made from turtleshell, stone tools and human heads collected during warfare to obtain tools, weapons, canoes, feathers, ochre and ritual objects.
		Wilson states that the history of European exploration in the Torres Strait is based on written accounts by the early seafarers and is therefore slanted by their perspective.
		Torres Strait Islander culture went through much change and was significantly influenced by the arrival of Christianity in 1871.
	www.cs.unm.edu /~brayer/personal/Australia00/Torres/Genhist.htm (872 words)

	Luis Vaez de Torres - Wikipedia
		Luiz Váez de Torres, marinaio portoghese, ricordato principalmente perché lo stretto di Torres che separa l'Australia da Papua Nuova Guinea prende il nome da lui.
		Dopo aver cercato Quirós senza alcun successo, e presumendo che fosse scomparso in mare, Torres riprese il viaggio designato verso Manila attraverso le Molucche.
		Sembra che Torres passò il resto della sua vita a Manila ove lasciò un resoconto del suo viaggio che il geografo scozzese Alexander Dalrymple vide nel 1769, e fu questi che diede allo stretto il nome di Torres.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luis_Vaez_de_Torres (298 words)

	De Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After De Quiros had been swept out to sea (eventually returning to Mexico), De Torres was left with Diego de Prado y Tovar and other survivors on Espiritu Santo.
		His report of the voyage was not discovered until 1762 (although it is briefly mentioned in a Franciscan document from Peru in 1640), and the journal of Prado was not published until 1930.
		Torres' voyage through the straits (the subject of much recent debate) happened to follow the discoveries of Willem Jansz in the same region by only a few months.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /books_and_maps/detorres.asp (328 words)

	NSW HSC ONLINE - Aboriginal Studies
		Torres Strait Islanders are the indigenous people of Australia but their culture is often overshadowed by Aboriginal Australia.
		The Torres Strait Islanders living on the mainland have had to adjust to a changing identity and have had to maintain their culture.
		The flag is a symbol for the unity and identity of all Torres Strait Islanders.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /ab_studies/rights/global/social_justice_global/sjwelcome.responsenew2.html (558 words)

	Racism. No Way.: Fact Sheets: Australian Communities: Torres Strait Islander People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Torres Strait Islanders have a strong sense of attachment to their homeland and those who live on the mainland return regularly for social and family occasions.
		Torres Strait Islanders are predominantly practising Christians having accepted the teachings of missionaries from the London Missionary Society and blended them with their traditional culture and zogo beliefs.
		Torres Strait Islanders have their own flag which is emblazoned with a white Dari (headdress), a symbol of Torres Strait Islanders.
	www.racismnoway.com.au /classroom/factsheets/53.html (848 words)

	Historik över 1600-talet
		De flesta tyska furstar kan i realiteten acceptera Pragfreden och bundsförvanterna avfaller hoptals.
		Genom dansk förmedling tas de första kontakterna för fredsförhandlingar mellan Sverige och kejsaren i Osnabrück.
		De japanska myndigheterna kontrollerar noga alla ankommande fartyg och kastar omedelbart krucifix, biblar o.d.
	www.student.nada.kth.se /%7Ed89-bhe/eg/Timeline.html (16733 words)

	Estrecho de Torres - Wikipedia
		Es muy poco profundo, y el laberinto de arrecifes e islas lo hace muy difícil de navegar.
		En el estrecho se encuentran las Islas del Estrecho de Torres, habitadas por los Isleños del Estrecho de Torres, un pueblo melanesio relacionado con los papúes.
		El primero en atravesar el estrecho fue el marino español Luis Váez de Torres, lugarteniente en la expedición de Pedro Fernández de Quirós que partió del Perú hacia el Pacífico Sur en 1605.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Estrecho_de_Torres (194 words)

	CCSU - Torres Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		New Guinea was named by a Spaniard, de Retez in 1545, who saw in its coast a resemblance to the Guinea coast of Africa.
		On this voyage Torres passed through a strait now named for him and skirted the southern shores of New Guinea, proving it to be an island and not part of the still unsighted Southern Continent of Australia.
		The charts of de Brosses were fairly satisfactory for the west coast of New Guinea where Cook made a landing.
	www.captaincooksociety.com /ccsu4115.htm (422 words)

	Historical Dates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hernan Cortez, Spanish conquistador in Mexico, sent Alvaro de Saavreda Ceron to relieve a Spanish outpost under siege from the Portuguese in Tidore.
		Ynigo Ortiz de Retes, Mexican-based Spanish captain, sailed along the north coast and plants the Spanish flag at a spot east of the mouth of the Mamberamo River on 20th June, taking possession of the island in the name of the King of Spain and names it "Nueva Guinea".
		Luis Vaez de Torres, a Portuguese sailor in the service of Spain, explores the entire south and west coast and sails through the Torres Strait which he discovered and from whom Torres Strait is named.
	www.koteka.net /history.htm (1814 words)

	Bibliography of Torres Strait: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bayldon, F. "Voyage of Luis Vaez de Torres from the New Hebrides to the Moluccas, June to November, 1606." Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 11(3): 158-194.
		Douglas, J. "The islands of Torres Straits." Proceedings of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia 1: 70-83.
		Morton, A. "Notes of a trip to the islands of Torres Straits and the south-east coast of New Guinea." Proceedings of the Geographical Society of Australasia, New South Wales and Victorian Branches, 1st session 1883-4, 1: 81-84.
	www.atsis.uq.edu.au /tsbibliography/history.html (2968 words)

	Queensland Government
		The first Torres Strait Islander permitted on the mainland to cut cane was in 1947 and in the 1960s the Islanders were free to work and settle elsewhere.
		Torres Strait Islanders used canoes to hunt for fish, turtle and dugong, which they used for trading and from the late 1860s pearling became established in the Islands.
		The Torres Strait Islanders speak their own language, of which there are four different types within the region.
	www.qld.gov.au /about_queensland/history/index.html (1630 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Torres Luis Vaez de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Portugal’s involvement in India, and Spain’s discouragement, allowed the rising power of the Netherlands to establish a string of trading centres from...
		Molina, Luis de (1535-1600), Spanish philosopher and Jesuit.
		Molina was born in Cuenca and taught at the University of Evora, in Portugal.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Torres_Luis_Vaez_de.html (103 words)

	Torres Strait -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Several languages are spoken on the Torres Strait Islands, one of them being (Click link for more info and facts about Torres Strait Creole) Torres Strait Creole.
		In 1770 when (English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)) James Cook annexed the whole of eastern Australia to the British Crown, the Torres Strait Islands were annexed along with them, and indeed Cook sailed through the strait after sailing up the Australian coast.
		The ruling was thus of far-reaching significance for the land claims of both Torres Strait Islanders and (A dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived) Australian Aborigines.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/To/Torres_Strait.htm (447 words)

	Torres Strait -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The small islands of the Torres Strait, between northern Australia and southern Papua New Guinea, were inhabited by groups of people who, generally speaking, shared a common basic culture.
		The cape juts north-northeast from the peninsula into Torres Strait, which separates it from the island of New Guinea.
		Daily tides occur in the Gulf of Tonkin (Southeast Asia), Vancouver Island, and the Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072970 (944 words)

	MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Luis Váez de Torres
		Luis Váez de Torres (?-c. 1613), navegante portugués a las órdenes del rey español Felipe III que fue el primer europeo en atravesar el...
		Tiene entre 130 y 145 km de ancho, y la navegación, aunque posible, es...
		Los intereses de Portugal se centraban en la India y España había desistido de sus expediciones; esto permitió a la emergente marina holandesa...
	es.encarta.msn.com /Luis_V%C3%A1ez_de_Torres.html (132 words)

	Estrecho De Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Varias idiomas se hablan en las islas del estrecho de Torres, una de ellas que eran criollo del estrecho de Torres.
		En 1770 cuando el cocinero de James anexó el conjunto de Australia del este a la corona británica, las islas del estrecho de Torres fueron anexadas junto con ellos, y cocinan de hecho navegado con el estrecho después de navegar encima de la costa australiana.
		Los isleños del estrecho de Torres insistieron que eran australianos, pero el gobierno de Papua-new.guinea se opuso al control australiano completo sobre las aguas del estrecho.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/es/Estrecho%20De%20Torres.htm (560 words)

	WIPO Domain Name Decision: D2001-1200
		It is asserted that if the Complainant’s lawyer really thought that Allan Torres did not exist, then presumably the Complainant’s lawyer would have stated in her defense that Allan Torres did not actually exist.
		To summarize its contention, if Allan Torres actually exists, then liability under the Policy is negated due to his being "commonly known" as "Torres." If Allan Torres exists, and if Complainant knew that he exists, then Complainant knowingly brought a Complaint devoid of merit, thus abusing these proceedings.
		Torres was entitled to register a domain name corresponding to his surname and we find no reliable basis for suggesting that such conduct was or is in bad faith.
	arbiter.wipo.int /domains/decisions/html/2001/d2001-1200.html (3632 words)

	Discoverers Web: Quiros
		In 1595 he served as pilot on the second voyage of Alvaro de Mendaña de Nehra, from Peru to the Marquesas Islands and the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific.
		The fate of the survivors on Espiritu Santo is dealt with in the article for Torres.
		The voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/quiros.html (902 words)

	Luis Váez de Torres - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Luis Váez de Torres - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		In 1605 he sailed from Callao in Spanish Peru as second-in-command to Pedro Fernández de Quirós on their voyage of discovery to the south-west Pacific, with Torres in command of the "San Pedro." In May 1606 they reached the islands which Quirós named Austrialia de Espiritu Santo (now Vanuatu).
		The article about Luis Váez de Torres contains information related to Luis Váez de Torres.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Luis_Vaez_de_Torres (341 words)

	Location Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Strait's overall population of 8000, of which approximately 6000 are Torres Strait Islanders and Aboriginal people, is dispersed throughout 19 small island communities.
		The communities are all remote, approximately 1000km from the nearest city and each has a population between 80 and 750.
		The Torres Strait is a major shipping channel for Australia and was named after the Spanish navigator, Luis Vaez de Torres who sailed through the region in 1606.
	www.cruise.com /LE5/Default/LocationID_11654/index.html (153 words)

	Charting the Pacific - Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1994, in response to local demands for greater autonomy, the Torres Strait Regional Authority (TSRA) was established to allow Torres Strait islanders to manage their own affairs according to their own ailan kastom (island custom) and to develop a stronger economic base for the region.
		The Torres Strait Islands Treaty signed by Australia and Papua New Guinea allows for free movement (without passports or visas) between Australia and Papua New Guinea for traditional activities in a limited zone of the Torres Strait.
		The first inhabitants of the Torres Strait are believed to have migrated from the Indonesian archipelago 70,000 years ago at a time when New Guinea was still attached to the Australian continent.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/pacific/places/country/torres_strait_islands.htm (666 words)

	Luis Váez de Torres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		No se sabe nada de la vida temprana de Torres, pero en un cierto punto él incorporó servicio español y fue a Suramérica.
		En 1605 él navegó de Callao en Perú español como segundo-en-comando a Pedro Fernández de Quirós en su viaje del descubrimiento al sudoeste el Pacífico, con Torres en el comando del "San Pedro." En mayo 1606 alcanzaron las islas que Quirós nombró Austrialia de Espiritu Santo (ahora Vanuatu).
		Torres pasó al parecer el resto de su vida en Manila.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/lu/Luis%20V%E1ez%20de%20Torres.htm (317 words)

	James Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While there, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander made their first major collections of Australian flora and there were mainly peaceful meetings with the local Aboriginal people from whom the name "kangaroo" was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kangaroo, which was gangaroo.
		He then sailed through Torres Strait between Australia and New Guinea, again becoming only the second European to do so (the first being Luis Vaez de Torres, in 1604).
		He explored and mapped the coast from California all the way to the Bering Strait, on the way discovering what came to be known as Cook Inlet in Alaska.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/poker-game-online-poker.html (1475 words)

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