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Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl.
Floruit

Floruit refers to a period of time during which a person, school, movement or even species was active or flourishing. It is the third person, singular, perfect tense, indicative, active form of the Latin verb florere ? "to flourish"....
 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish
Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
 maritime explorer
List of maritime explorers

Introduction This is a list of notable maritime explorers throughout the history of Humanity....
, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 - Melanesia
Melanesia

Melanesia literally means "islands of the black-skinned people". It is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia....
n island of New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").

Discoveries
On June 13, 1545 Ortiz de Retez, in command of the San Juan, left port in Tidore
Tidore

Tidore is in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, west of the larger island of Halmahera. It is a city, island, and archipelago. In the In the pre-colonial era, the kingdom of Tidore was a major regional political and economic power, and a fierce rival of nearby Ternate, just to the north....
, an island of the East Indies and sailed to reach the northern coast of the island of New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, which he ventured along as far as the mouth of the Mamberamo River
Mamberamo River

The Mamberamo is a large river on the island of New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Papua .The source of the river is formed from the confluences of its upper tributaries, the Tariku River and Taritatu River Rivers....
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Yñigo Ortiz de Retez (fl.
Floruit

Floruit refers to a period of time during which a person, school, movement or even species was active or flourishing. It is the third person, singular, perfect tense, indicative, active form of the Latin verb florere ? "to flourish"....
 1545) was a 16th-century Spanish
Spanish Empire

The Spanish Empire was one of the largest empires in world history, and one of the first global empires. It included territories and colonies ruled by Spain in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania between the 15th and late 19th centuries....
 maritime explorer
List of maritime explorers

Introduction This is a list of notable maritime explorers throughout the history of Humanity....
, who navigated the northern coastline of the Pacific
Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
 - Melanesia
Melanesia

Melanesia literally means "islands of the black-skinned people". It is a subregion of Oceania extending from the western side of the West Pacific to the Arafura Sea, north and northeast of Australia....
n island of New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, and is credited with bestowing the island's name ("Nueva Guinea").

Discoveries


On June 13, 1545 Ortiz de Retez, in command of the San Juan, left port in Tidore
Tidore

Tidore is in the Maluku Islands of eastern Indonesia, west of the larger island of Halmahera. It is a city, island, and archipelago. In the In the pre-colonial era, the kingdom of Tidore was a major regional political and economic power, and a fierce rival of nearby Ternate, just to the north....
, an island of the East Indies and sailed to reach the northern coast of the island of New Guinea
New Guinea

New Guinea, located just north of Australia, is the List of islands by area, having become separated from the Australian mainland when the area now known as the Torres Strait flooded after the last glacial period....
, which he ventured along as far as the mouth of the Mamberamo River
Mamberamo River

The Mamberamo is a large river on the island of New Guinea, in the Indonesian province of Papua .The source of the river is formed from the confluences of its upper tributaries, the Tariku River and Taritatu River Rivers....
. He took possession of the land for the Spanish Crown, in the process giving the island the name by which it is known today. He called it Nueva Guinea owing to the resemblance of the local inhabitants to the peoples of the Guinea
Guinea (region)

Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It stretches north through the forested, tropical, regions and ends at the Sahel....
 coast in West Africa
West Africa

West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the United Nations subregion of Western Africa includes the following 16 countries distributed over an area of approximately 5 million square km:...
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