Gaspar Corte-Real

Gaspar Corte- Real ( * 1450 in Terceira, Azores ();? † 1501) was a Portuguese explorer and the youngest son of João Vaz Corte- Real.

On May 12, 1500 sent him to the Portuguese King Manuel on a voyage of discovery to the New World and assured him dominion over newly discovered countries. Corte-Real set out for Lisbon and reached a country " with large trees and fertile soil ". Corte-Real called it Terra Verde (German grassland), and in fact believed you behind Greenland and Labrador. The following year he sailed with three caravels again to Terra Verde. After he found ice in the Davis Strait, he sailed southward and settled, probably on the coast of Labrador or Newfoundland, capture 60 residents. As a part of the Indians dressed in skins, others to have been almost naked but, it was speculated that the prisoners came from two different climate zones. After that, the little fleet separated. While Corte-Real embarking on a southerly course, the other two ships sailed to Portugal, where they arrived in October 1501. Gaspar Corte-Real, never returned from his trip.

In May 1502 his brother Miguel with him trying to find an expedition of three ships, but also his ship did not return. In August 1502, only the other two ships found one at an agreed meeting in Southern Newfoundland. A hard to read, supposedly left by Miguel Corte-Real stone inscription in Latin with the Cross of the Order of Christ in Dighton (Massachusetts ) is, according to EB Dela Barre dated to the year 1511.

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