Pedro Fernandes de Queirós is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Pedro Fernandes de Queirós as Portuguese explorer.
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós was born at Évora in 1565. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Portugal.
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.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Pedro Fernandes de Queirós died in 1614, aged 49. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer
