- Álvaro de
Mendaña y
Neira (or Neyra) (1
October 1542 – 18
October 1595) was a
Spanish navigator, explorer, and cartographer, best
known for two of the...
- 1568, the
Spanish navigator Álvaro de
Mendaña was the
first European to
visit them.
Though not
named by
Mendaña, it is
believed that the
islands were...
-
Marquis of Cañete (Spanish: Marqués de Cañete), by
navigator Álvaro de
Mendaña, who
visited them in 1595. The
Marquesas Islands constitute one of the...
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Graphium mendana.
Wikispecies has
information related to
Graphium mendana. East
Melanesian Islands Böhm, M.; Müller, C.J. (2018). "Graphium
mendana". IUCN...
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Turbonilla mendana is a
species of sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk in the
family Pyramidellidae, the
pyrams and
their allies. The s****
grows to...
-
first charted by
Westerners during the
Spanish expedition of Álvaro de
Mendaña in 1568. The name
comes from the
village of Guadalcanal, in the province...
-
Austronesian mariners before its
first recorded discovery by Álvaro de
Mendaña de
Neira in 1568.
Ships continued visiting the area in the
following centuries...
- is on Honiara's main thoroughfare,
Mendana Avenue.
Situated between the
Yacht Club and the
Solomon Kitano Mendana Hotel, its
officers provide tourist...
- Melanesia, were
named for King
Solomon by the
Spanish navigator Álvaro de
Mendaña, who
became the
first European to see the
islands in 1568. In H. Rider...
- with the
islands took
place in 1595 when the
Spanish navigator Álvaro de
Mendaña de
Neira sighted the
island of Pukapuka,
which he
named San
Bernardo (Saint...
