Álvaro Martins
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Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, may have been a 15th century Portuguese explorer of the western Atlantic and later the African coast. He is alleged to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on a alleged joint Portuguese-Danish expedition to Greenland and Newfoundland in 1472. He is also claimed to have accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488. Martins is claimed to have been the founder of the present day city of Angra do Heroísmo, Azores.
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