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* Pinzón ( Duncan ) Island – Named after the Pinzón brothers, captains of the Pinta and Niña caravels, it has an area of 18 square km ( 7 sq mi ) and a maximum altitude of 458 m ( 1, 503 ft ).
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Pinzón and Duncan
* The Galapagos island, now known as Pinzón Island, was named Duncan Island.
Pinzón Island, sometimes called Duncan Island ( after Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan ), is an island in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
Pinzón and Island
Subsequent DNA analysis, however, revealed it was more likely to be from Pinzón Island, home of the subspecies Chelonoidis nigra duncanensis.
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* Pinzón Island
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* 1500 – Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
* November – Martin Alonzo Pinzón, Spanish navigator and explorer ( b. c. 1441 )
* Microlophus duncanensis – Pinzón Lava Lizard *
* ( 1982 – 1984 ): Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón ( Palos de la Frontera, Spain, c. 1462 – after 1514 ) was a Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers.
Martín Alonso Pinzón, ( Palos de la Frontera, Huelva ; c. 1441 – c. 1493 ) was a Spanish mariner, shipbuilder, navigator and explorer, oldest of the Pinzón brothers.
* Martín Alonso Pinzón ( 1441 – 1493 ), Spanish navigator
The expedition was under the command of Admiral Luis Hernández Pinzón – a direct descendant of the Pinzón brothers who accompanied Christopher Columbus in the discovery of America.
* Vice-Admiral Luis Hernández Pinzón ( 1863 – 1864 )
Pinzón and after
No record exists of Pinzón after 1514.
The Niña and Pinta sighted and rejoined one another 6 January 1493, and, after a furious argument in which according to at least one witness, Pinzón objected to the 39 men being " left so far from Spain, being so few, because they could not be provided for and would be lost ", and Columbus threatened to hang Pinzón, the two ships headed together back toward Spain on January 8
For 350 years after the European arrival by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, the Portuguese portion of the basin remained a former planned agricultural landscape untended by those who survived the epidemics.
For 350 years after the European arrival by Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, the Portuguese portion of the basin remained an untended former food gathering and planned agricultural landscape occupied by those who survived the epidemics.
Pinzón and brothers
The Pinzón brothers, seamen of the Tinto-Odiel participated in Columbus's undertaking.
There are several conflicting theories about the origin of the family and of their name ( see Pinzón brothers # The Pinzón family of Palos ).
Columbus and the Pinzón brothers arrive in America.
Statue of the Pinzón brothers in Palos.
These and other acts by Pinzón and by his brothers, especially Vicente, have led historians to see the brothers as " co-discoverers of America ", in that without their help, support, and courage, Columbus probably could not have achieved his enterprise of discovery, at least not in that time and place.
Pinzón and Pinta
Along with his older brother Martín Alonso Pinzón who captained the Pinta, he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World in 1492, as captain of Niña.
His youngest brother Vicente Yáñez Pinzón was captain of the Niña, and the middle brother Francisco Martín Pinzón was maestre ( first mate ) of the Pinta.
Admiral Columbus captained the flagship Santa María, Pinzón was captain of the Pinta ; his middle brother Francisco was master.
* Domingo Gómez: Vindicación del piloto de la carabela " Pinta ", Martín Alonso Pinzón, in: Mundi hispánico.
Pinzón and Niña
Pinzón returned home to Palos, arriving on 15 March 1493, precisely the same day the Niña reached Lisbon.
Pinzón and has
It has been called Japoc, Yapoc, Iapoco, and even Vicente Pinzón River.
Pinzón and 1
Pinzón arrived in Baiona in Galicia, near Vigo, 1 March 1493 ; Columbus reached Lisbon on March 4 ; he later faced problems with the Court for having touched down in Portugal out of necessity in bad weather.
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Alternate common names include: Roselin à tête grise ( in French ), Schwarzstirn-Schneegimpel ( in German ), and Pinzón Montano Nuquigrí ( in Spanish ).
Alternate common names include: Roselin ( in French ), Rußschneegimpel ( in German ), and Pinzón Montano Negro ( in Spanish ).
Born in Palos around 1441, it appears that at quite a young age Pinzón shipped out on a locally based caravel as a grumete ( cabin boy ).
Duncan and Island
* Duncan, Francis, A Description of the Island Of St Helena Containing Observations on its Singular Structure and Formation and an Account of its Climate, Natural History, and Inhabitants, London, Printed For R Phillips, 6 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, 1805
In the 1870s Duncan MacKinnon, a Canadian living in New York City, and Alonzo T. Cross of Providence, Rhode Island, created stylographic pens with a hollow, tubular nib and a wire acting as a valve.
As from early 2008 the Australian government led by Kevin Rudd began what it called a " new approach " to relations between Australia and the Pacific, appointing a Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Duncan Kerr.
Short freeway segments of the TCH can be found near Victoria and Nanaimo, but the rest of the highway on Vancouver Island operates mostly as a heavily signalized low-to-limited-mobility arterial road that uniquely ( for the Trans Canada Highway system ) does not bypass any of its areas of urban sprawl, particularly Nanaimo and Duncan.
The Baumgardner's Mill Covered Bridge, Duncan Island ( 36LA60, 61 ), and Shenks Ferry Site ( 36LA2 ) are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
It ran through central Duncan until 1928, when it was shifted to the south side of the tracks in order to eliminate grade-level crossings between Columbus and Grand Island.
*** Chelonoidis duncanensis, Pinzon Giant Tortoise, Duncan Island Giant Tortoise
In 1946 the firm acquired the Rock Island refinery and crude oil gathering system near Duncan, Oklahoma.
* Treasure Island adapted by James Maxwell with Clive Duncan and Ronald Forfar ( 1981 )
In the Canadian House of Commons, Campbell River is represented by the riding of Vancouver Island North ( John Duncan, Conservative ).
Shortly after Blue Star, Parmar visited auto mechanic and electrician Inderjit Singh Reyat, who lived in Duncan, British Columbia, a small community north of Victoria on Vancouver Island, to ask him to construct a bomb, though Reyat would later claim he had no idea what it would be used for.
* Peter Duncan ( mariner ), American sea captain, see Navassa Island
The name was later corrupted to Duncan ’ s Island.
Other settlements on Vancouver Island ( such as Duncan ) and the mainland are separated from Georgia Strait itself by islands.
John Duncan MacLean ( 8 December 1873, in Culloden, Prince Edward Island – 28 March 1948, in Ottawa, Ontario ) was a teacher, physician, politician and the 20th Premier of British Columbia, Canada.
* June 4 – 6 – With Charles A. Levine as his passenger, Clarence Duncan Chamberlin made a record nonstop transatlantic flight, in his monoplane Columbia, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Eisleben, Germany, a distance of, in 42 hours and 31 minutes.
In the 1880s the Anglican missionary William Duncan, with a group of Tsimshian, requested settlement on Annette Island from the U. S. government.
Highway 18 is a short, long main vehicle route in the Cowichan Valley Regional District on Vancouver Island, connecting the city of Duncan on the Trans-Canada Highway with the community of Youbou, on the north shore of Lake Cowichan.
The Duncan sets sail for the Tabor Island, which, out of sheer luck, turns out to be Captain Grant's shelter.
Airport-Upgrades to the Duncan Town Airport Ragged Island ( funded by the European Union ) were commenced in 2006, at a cost of $ 650, 000.
This housing architecture also can be found substantially in Victoria, Comox, Duncan and Nanaimo ( on Vancouver Island ) but is less common due to the different economic and constraints there.
By 12: 00, however, they had to abandon the effort as interior bulkheads within Duncan collapsed causing the ship to finally sink north of Savo Island.
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