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	Pedro Fernandes de Queirós - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565 - 1614), also known in English as Pedro Fernández de Quirós, was a Portuguese seaman and explorer.
		In 1595 he served as pilot with Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira on his explorations in the south-west Pacific, and after his death he led the only remaining ship of the expedition to Philippines.
		The name of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós is today chiefly remembered in Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pedro_Fernandez_de_Quiros (729 words)

	Discovery of Australia by de Quiros in the Year 1606 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pedro Fernandez de Quiros was the least of the brilliant galaxy of Portuguese and Spanish explorers who throughout two centuries, by their maritime skill and enterprise, won immortal fame for their respective countries, and extended far, to the east and to the west the limits of Christian civilisation.
		De Torres, who was second in command of the expedition of De Quiros, addressed a letter to the King in 1607, giving some account of the voyage and of its various incidents.
		De Quiros and his associates refer to the fine strand connected with this port and extending between the two rivers; and they make particular mention of the heavy fl pebbles strewn on this strand, "admirably suited for ships' ballast." Nothing of all this is to be met with at Santo.
	gutenberg.net.au /ebooks06/0600641h.html (10423 words)

	Quiros - smh.com.au
		John Toohey is not the first Australian author to exploit the narrative potential of explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, who spent years in futile search of the Great South Land, obsessed with founding a holy settlement for the glory of God and Spain.
		But the Quiros of James McAuley's epic poem, for example, is a tame creature compared with the fiercely visionary and magnetic personality of this novel.
		Quiros by contrast is somewhat contrived (grotesqueries, like the narrator's facial disfigurement, seem to have become a sine qua non for historical narratives), as well as being sluggish in parts, with too much time spent emphasising the vastness, emptiness and loneliness of the ocean.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/05/10/1021002385773.html (398 words)

	Australian Christian Channel - Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 400th anniversary
		Before Captain Cook discovered the coastline of Australia, de Quiros, a Portuguese navigator, was part of a team of explorers that believed there was a large undiscovered continent in the south (Australia).
		De Quiros did not know what lay ahead for the people of these lands, or the generations that would follow but the truth and power of his declaration is one that God has faithfully honoured.
		Click here to download a version of the Pedro de Quiros prayer video clip to play at your church this Sunday 14th May. Please note that this is a 26Mb Windows Media Player file.
	www.acctv.com.au /articledetail.asp?id=4352 (346 words)

	Wikinfo \| Pedro Fernandez de Quiros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pedro Fernandez de Quirós (1565 - 1614), was a Portuguese seaman and explorer.
		In 1595 he served as pilot with Alvaro de Mendana de Nehra on his explorations in the south-west Pacific.
		Quiros landed on a large island which he took to be part of the southern continent, and named it La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (the Southern Land of the Holy Spirit).
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Pedro_Fernandez_de_Quiros (648 words)

	Australian Discovery, edited by Ernest Scott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		This narrative is contained in a manuscript which was found at Manila in 1762 when the English captured that city during the war against the Family Compact (France and Spain).
		We sailed from Callao, in Peru, December 21st, 1605, with two ships and a launch, under the command of Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, and I for his almirante; and without losing company, we stood W.S.W., and went on this course 800 leagues.
	gutenberg.net.au /ausdisc/ausdisc1-02.html (1331 words)

	IVcentNavQuirosEnglish
		To conmemorate the 400th anniversary of the occasion when Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, having discovered what he believed to be the great south land, claimed it for Spain and named it "Austrialia del Espiritu Santo".
		Is a community organisation comprising representatives from the Spanish community, the Embassy of Spain in Australia, the business community and the ACT government who are working together to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Spanish contribution to the history and naming of Australia.
		In 1595 he served as pilot on the second voyage of the spanish sailor Alvaro de Mendaña de Nehra, from Peru to the Marquesas Islands and the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific.
	www.embaspain.com /IVCentNavQuirosEnglish.html (623 words)

	Excite - Travel Guide - History & Culture
		Explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros laid eyes on the islands in 1606, naming the first one he sighted Nuestra SeÃ±ora de Austrialia del Espiritu Santo, known today simply as Santo.
		De Quiros wandered off into the Pacific not long after he arrived, presumably believing his failure had condemned the unsuspecting ni-Vanuatu to burn for eternity.
		Among the Spanish, Portuguese and French explorers who followed was Louis Antoine de Bougainville, who wrote that he had been 'transported to the garden of Eden'.
	www1.excite.com /travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,pacific-557,00.html (1463 words)

	Universidad de Navarra /Navarra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The first and third narratives are translations of the "Historia del descubrimiento de las regiones austriales", first published at Madrid in 1876 by Zaragoza, who ascribes the authorship to Luis de Belmonte Bermudez.
		Narrative of the voyage of the adelantado Alvaro de Mendana de Neira for the discovery of the islands of Solomon.
		Narrative of the voyage of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros in 1606, for the discovery of the austrial regions -- v.
	www.unav.es /record=b1545683*spi (277 words)

	Pedró Fernandez de Quirós
		Pedró Fernandez de Quirós (1565-1614), was born in Portugal but served his younger years in the Spanish naval service learning seamanship and navigation.
		De Quirós landed on a large island which he took to be part of the southern continent, and named it La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo* (the Southern Land of the Holy Spirit).
		Many writers wrongly credit de Quirós with coining the word "Australia" which was actually used by his translator in 1625 and later was strongly endorsed by Matthew Flinders.
	www.vanuatupost.vu /Fernandez/deQuiros.htm (332 words)

	Vision Radio Network
		In 1606 Pedro Fernandez de Quiros discovered Vanuatu, and, believing that the island on which he landed was part of the great southern continent, named it Australia del Espiritu Santo.
		De Quiros obtained royal approval to search for the southern land in 1603.
		De Quiros came within an ace of discovering mainland Australia, and not for want of determination or faith.
	www.vision.org.au /400years.htm (1222 words)

	Pohnpei-Between Time & Tide 's Journal of Pohnpei History: Pedro Fernandez de Quirós (1595) -1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Pedro Fernandez de Quirós is typically given credit for the European discovery of the island of Pohnpei in 1595, though it is possible that another explorer, Alvaro de Saavedra, spotted the island more than seventy years earlier.
		De Quirós, Portuguese by birth, was part of a Spanish expedition led by Alvaro de Mendaña, whose mission was to establish a colony in the Solomon Islands.
		Pedro Fernandez de Quiros image: Kelly, Celsus 1965.
	www.pohnpeiheaven.com /earlycontact01.htm (210 words)

	Great South Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Captain Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, born Portugese, spent most of his life in the service of Spain.
		He was commissioned by the Pope On 21 December 1605 "to serve God and spread the holy Catholic faith, and aggrandize the royal crown of their king".
		Markham (ed.): "The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros".
	www.storm-harvest.asn.au /dequiros.html (371 words)

	Kiribati - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		Groups from Fiji and Tonga arrived about the 13th century and intermarried with the islands’ inhabitants to form the Micronesian people known as the I-Kiribati.
		In 1606 Spanish explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros sighted Butaritari, an atoll in the present-day Gilbert Islands.
		In 1788 British naval captains John Marshall and Thomas Gilbert, for whom the Gilbert Islands were later named, came upon several of the other islands while sailing from Australia to China.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761562805___7/Kiribati.html (696 words)

	Fernandez de Quiros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Fernandes de Quieros, Portuguese navigator of the Pacific (c.1565-1615), known generally by his Castilian name.
		He landed on La Conversion de San Pablo (Hao Island) and Isla de Pescado (Caroline Island, often confused with San Bernardo (Puka Puka), which yielded food but no water.
		The fate of the survivors on Espiritu Santo is dealt with in the article for Torres.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /books_and_maps/fernandezdequiros.asp (539 words)

	Discoverers Web: Quiros
		Born in Evora, Quirós had previously sailed with the galleons plying between the Philippine Islands and Mexico, and had acquired a profound knowledge of navigation.
		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 voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, 1595 to 1606
	www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/quiros.html (902 words)

	Pohnpei-Between Time & Tide's Journal of Pohnpei History: The Early Contact Period (text only ver.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Jesuit priest, Diego Luis de Sanvitores, established the first Catholic mission on Guam in 1668.
		Sapwuahfik (Ngatik) was found in 1773 by a Spanish vessel, Nuestra Señora de la Consolacion.
		He claimed to be the first to discover the island, clearly unaware of de Quirós' visit 233 years earlier.
	www.pohnpeiheaven.com /earlycontact-history.htm (3709 words)

	Warfare & Worship Banners - Another Four Hundred Years! Design
		This reflects the main declaration made by Pedro Fernandez that these nations of the South Pacific were The Southern lands Of the Holy Spirit.
		Pedro Fernandez' party of three ships, San Pedro y Paulo, San Pedro and Los Tres Reyes left Peru in on 21 December 1605, with 300 crew and soldiers.
		Pedro Fernandez landed on a large island which he took to be part of the southern continent, and named it La Australia del Espiritu Santo (the Southern Land of the Holy Spirit).
	www.worshipbanners.org /designs/prod_30.php (1460 words)

	Tonga on the 'NET - Pacific Lore - 'Te Fenua Enata', the Land of Men
		Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, the chief pilot, said that the people of Magdalena were beautiful "and they had much cause to praise their creator" (The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, Vol.
		The people of Magdalena pointed to the northwest and these Spaniards understood that to mean that there were other islands in that direction.
		The islands that they named: Magdalena, San Pedro, Dominica and Santa Cristina already had names before the Spanish came and those names remain, that is: Fatu Iva, Mohotani, Hiva Oa and Tahuata.
	www.tongatapu.net.to /lore/marquesas/marquesas001.htm (856 words)

	History of Tahiti and her islands by The Tahiti Traveler
		English sailors arrived in Tahiti in 1767 followed by the French and started to develop economical relationships with the locals and opened a new era of scientific discoveries and reports about this part of the world that was badly known by the occidental world until then.
		In 1606 during a new trip, De Queiros reached a new land that he called Sagittaria.
		For a long time, this new land was believed to be the isthmus of Tahiti at Taravao but according to the documents and description we have, De Queiros had actually discovered an atoll in the Tuamotu.
	www.thetahititraveler.com /general/historyfamous.asp (627 words)

	The Makers of Australia — The Explorers » Wesley Mission › TRA WordTalks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the account (1773) of James Cook’s voyage in HMS Endeavour, reference was made to de Quiros’s discovery, but Cook believed this land to lie to the north east of his discovery, which he called “New South Wales”.
		De Quiros became the first explorer to lay claim to Australia.
		(1949) “The voyages of Pedro de Quiros” vol 1, pp 163–5).
	www.wesleymission.org.au /ministry/tra/2004/040829.asp (1622 words)

	A short history of Vanuatu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Espíritu Santo, one of the islands that form now Vanuatu, is discovered by the Spanish explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós.
		Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands.
		In 1991 and following a split in the Vanua'aku Pati, Maxime Carlot Korman, leader of the Francophone Union des Partis Modérés (Union of Moderate Parties, UPM), becomes Vanuatu's first Francophone prime minister.
	www.electionworld.org /history/vanuatu.htm (562 words)

	Australian Prayer Network - National Day of Thanksgiving
		This declaration was made by Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandez de Quiros on the shores of Vanuatu on Pentecost weekend 1606.
		It is 400 years since the declaration was spoken out over the Islands of the South Seas (including Australia) by Portuguese explorer de Quiros that these lands were to be thereafter known as the Great Southlands of the Holy Spirit.
		The poster, which costs $10.00, is ideal for churches, homes and offices and includes much of de Quiros' proclamation.
	ausprayernet.org.au /thanksgiving.php (4731 words)

	BUST OF GREAT SPANISH EXPLORER UNVEILED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Spain's ambassador to Australia Antonio Cosano today presented a bust of the great Spanish explorer Pedro Fernandez De Quiros as a gift to the Australian people, to coincide with Spain's national day.
		The bust was presented to Australia to mark the 400th anniversary of Quiros and Luis Vaez de Torres' epic Pacific Ocean voyages.
		Mr Lloyd said he hoped the bust of Quiros would one day be among many others installed along Windsor Walk.
	www.ministers.dotars.gov.au /jl/releases/2006/october/l128_2006.htm (289 words)

	Australia's Early Exploration and Colonization
		One such expedition, from Peru, commanded by Alvaro de Mendana, discovered the Solomon Islands.
		1605 [December] Pedro Fernandez de quiros, one of Mendana's officers and a man of the Counter-Reformation who desired that Catholicism should prevail in the southland, sets sail from Peru under Spain's King Philip III.
		De Quiros reaches the New Hebrides and returns, but Spanish officialdom is not persuaded to mount antoher expedition.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /australia/austchron.html (998 words)

	Henderson Island
		Recent archaeological research has proven that Henderson had been colonised by Polynesians, however when it was discovered by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros in 1606 he states that the island is uninhabited.
		Three crew members landed on Henderson with a small boat and came back with an unripe pine fruit (probably a fruit of Pandanus tectonius, screw pine, which grows on the island).
		Henderson Island was sighted by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros, a Portuguese navigator sailing for the Spanish King, on January 29, 1606.
	www.winthrop.dk /hender2.html (3322 words)

	Down-Under-Info.de - Australien (australia) - Geschichte: 17. Jahrhundert (1600-1699)
		Louis Vaez de Torres (1565 - 1610), der im Dienst der spanischen Krone stand, segelt rund 6 Monate nach Jansz durch die Torres-Straße (Torres Strait) zwischen Cape York und Neuguinea.
		Er widerlegt die Annahme, dass Neuguinea Teil des legendären unbekannten Südlandes "Terra Australis Incognita" ist.
		Willem de Vlamingh erkundet Rottnest Island (vor Perth) und den Swan River (fließt durch Perth).
	www.down-under-info.de /australien-geschichte/1600-1699.html (395 words)

	Rarotonga : : History \| Frommers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In any event, they discovered the Cook Islands as part of the great Polynesian migrations that settled all of the South Pacific long before the Spanish explorer Alvaro de Menda?a laid the first European eyes on any of the Cook Islands when he discovered Pukapuka in 1595.
		Thus, except for Rakahanga, which was discovered by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros during a voyage along the same general route in 1606, the islands did not appear on European maps for another 170 years.
		And then, as happened in so many South Pacific island groups, along came Capt. James Cook, who stumbled onto some of the islands during his voyages in 1773 and 1777; he named them the Hervey Islands.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/rarotonga/0209020044.html (375 words)

	Home - Harvest Pilgrimages - Sydney 2008 \| World Youth Day \| Neocatechumenal Pilgrimages
		Harvest Youth Tours are World Youth Day and Australian specialists and we want to make your mission in Australia as rich and fulfilling as possible.
		On the 14th of May 1606 (the day of Pentecost) the Portugese Captain Pedro Fernandez De Quiros, exploring the South Pacific, sighted land, and declared it to be ‘Terra Australis Del Spirito Santo’, The Great South Land of the Holy Spirit.
		Captain Pedro Fernandez De Quiros was a man of faith and great missionary zeal, being firmly convinced that the Lord had chosen him to discover and bring the Gospel to “Terra Australis”.
	www.wyd.harvestpilgrimages.com (320 words)

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