Gabriel de Castilla (c. 1577 – c. 1620) was a Spanish explorer and navigator. A native of Palencia, it has been argued that he was the early explorer of Antarctica.[1]
^Vázquez de Acuña, Isidoro. Don Gabriel de Castilla primer avistador de la Antártica en Revista de Marina 1993 N° 2, Valparaíso: Armada de Chile (p. 4).