Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho

Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho (c. 1560–1602) (Sebastián Rodríguez Cermeño in Spanish), was a Portuguese explorer, born in Sesimbra (Portugal), appointed by the king Philip II (Spanish: Felipe II de España; Portuguese: Filipe I de Portugal) to sail along the shores of California, in the years 1595 and 1596, in order to map the American west coast line and define the maritime routes of the Pacific Ocean in the 16th century.

References

Wagner, Henry R., The voyage to California of Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeño in 1595. California Historical Society Quarterly, vol. III, n.º 1, April 1924
Piedade, Carla Delgado da, O contributo português na definição das rotas do Pacífico no século XVI : a viagem de Sebastião Rodrigues Soromenho Lisboa: Academia de Marinha, 2006. ISBN 972-781-092-6

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Name	Cermeno, Sebastian Rodriguez
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Date of birth	1560
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Date of death	1602
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