Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo
Illustration — Woodcut depicting the São Bento shipwreck of 1554 • Illustration — 1575 map of Southern African coastline from Cape of Good Hope to Inhambane Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo (c. 1510, Santo Estêvão - c. 1580, Santo Estêvão) was a Portuguese navigator and cartographer.
Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo
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- 1510
- Died
- 1580
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- Kingdom of Portugal
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- cartographer
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- Portuguese
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Illustration — Woodcut depicting the São Bento shipwreck of 1554 • Illustration — 1575 map of Southern African coastline from Cape of Good Hope to Inhambane Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo (c. 1510, Santo Estêvão - c. 1580, Santo Estêvão) was a Portuguese navigator and cartographer.
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Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo was born in 1510.
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Coastline of Southern Africa from Cape of Good Hope to Inhambane - 35S to 23S
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1510
Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo born.
1580
Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo died.
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- 1.Lost Rulers of the Malabar Coast
- 2.Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa vol. 8 (1973)
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