Andrés de Urdaneta is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Andrés de Urdaneta as Spanish Basque explorer.
Andrés de Urdaneta was born at Ordizia in 1498. His recorded nationality is Crown of Castile.
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 explorer, writer and geographer.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Andrés de Urdaneta died in 1568, aged 70. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, writer and geographer
