Antón de Alaminos
| Antón de Alaminos | |
|---|---|
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| Born | Palos de la Frontera  |
| Occupation | Navigator |
Antón de Alaminos was a Spanish navigator during the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
He was the first naval officer of the Spanish fleet that discovered the peninsula of Yucatan in 1517. He served under the commands of Grijalba and Hernan Cortes, and was the first to pass the Bahama channel.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1891). "Alaminos, Antonio". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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- 16th-century explorers