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Pedro Mascarenhas
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Pedro Mascarenhas
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Pedro Mascarenhas
(1470 – 16 June 1555) was a
Portuguese
explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of
Diego Garcia
in the
Indian Ocean
in 1512. He also encountered the
Indian Ocean
island of
Mauritius
in 1512, although he may not have been the first Portuguese explorer to do so; earlier expeditions by
Diogo Dias
and
Afonso de Albuquerque
along with
Diogo Fernandes Pereira
may have encountered the islands. In 1528 explorer
Diogo Rodrigues
(after whom the island of
Rodrigues
is named) named the islands of
Réunion
,
Mauritius
, and
Rodrigues
the
Mascarene Islands
, after Mascarenhas.
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