Pêro de Barcelos
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Pêro de Barcelos (15th century/16th century), sometimes Pedro de Barcelos, was a Portuguese explorer of North America, whom, together with João Fernandes Lavrador, was the first to sight the Coast of Labrador in 1499.[1]
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- ^ Bailey W. Diffie and George D. Winius (1977). Foundations of the Portuguese empire. University of Minnesota Press. p. 464. ISBN 0816607826. http://books.google.ca/books?id=vtZtMBLJ7GgC&lpg=PA464&dq=The%20name%20%22Labrador%22%20and%20Jo%C3%A3o%20Fernandes%20Lavrador&pg=PA464#v=onepage&q&f=true. Retrieved 2010-08-13.
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