Tristão da Cunha is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Tristão da Cunha as Portuguese explorer and diplomat.
Tristão da Cunha was born at Lisbon in 1460. 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 and diplomat.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Tristão da Cunha died in 1540, aged 80. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer and diplomat
