João Álvares Fagundes

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João Álvares Fagundes (fl. 1521), an explorer and ship owner from Viana do Castelo in Northern Portugal, near Galicia, organized several expeditions to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1520-1521.

Fagundes explored the islands of St Paul near Cape Breton, Sable Island, Penguin Island, Burgeo, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon which he named the islands of Eleven Thousand Virgins in honor of Saint Ursula.^{[citation needed]}

King Manuel I of Portugal gave Fagundes exclusive rights and ownership of his discoveries on March 13, 1521.

Between 1521 and 1525, Fagundes tried to establish a colony in Nova Scotia^{[citation needed]} but little else is known.

[edit] External links

• Encyclopédie des îles Saint-Pierre & Miquelon
• João Alvares Fagundes Monument
• The Portuguese Explorer
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online