Alonzo de Santa Cruz is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Alonzo de Santa Cruz as Spanish cartographer.
Alonzo de Santa Cruz was born at Seville in 1505. His recorded nationality is Spain.
The Age of Discovery was driven by Iberian crowns, the caravel and the search for a sea route to the spice trade - and it opened the Atlantic world with consequences its sailors never intended.
He is recorded as cartographer, historian and writer.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Alonzo de Santa Cruz died in 1567, aged 62. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer, historian and writer
