Governorate of Terra Australis Gobernación de la Terra Australis | |||||||||||||||
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| 1539–1555 | |||||||||||||||
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,_Spain.svg) Map of the Spanish Governorate of Terra Australis (1539-1555), later it was incorporated into the Governorate of Chile | |||||||||||||||
| Status | Governorate of the Crown of Castile | ||||||||||||||
| Official languages | Spanish | ||||||||||||||
| Religion | Catholicism | ||||||||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||||||||
| Governor | |||||||||||||||
• 1539-1540 | Pedro Sancho de la Hoz | ||||||||||||||
• 1540-1553 | Pedro de Valdivia | ||||||||||||||
• 1554-1555 | Jerónimo de Alderete | ||||||||||||||
| Historical era | Spanish Empire | ||||||||||||||
• Created by Capitulación de Pedro Sancho de la Hoz | 1539 | ||||||||||||||
• Incorporated to the Governorate of Chile | 1555 | ||||||||||||||
| Currency | Escudo | ||||||||||||||
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The Governorate of Terra Australis[1] or Governorate of Pedro Sancho de la Hoz was a Spanish Governorate of the Crown of Castile created in 1539[2] which was granted to Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz[3][4][5] and consisted in all the territories to the south of the Strait of Magellan until the South Pole, and, to the east and west, the borders were the ones specified in the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza, respectively.[2]
The geographical knowledge of the time was such that Tierra del Fuego was considered part of the hypothetical continent of Terra Australis. In 1603, Admiral Gabriel de Castilla,[6][7] who left Valparaíso to reconnoiter the coasts of Chile, reached the southwest coast, reaching the 64th degree south, discovering the first Antarctic lands,[disputed – discuss] and it was not until 1616 that Cape Horn was discovered.[1]
- ^ a b Francisco Orrego Vicuña; Augusto Salinas Araya (1977). Desarrollo de la Antártica (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Instituto de Estudios Internacionales, Universidad de Chile; Editorial Universitaria.
- ^ a b Pinochet de la Barra, Óscar (November 1944). La Antártica Chilena (in Spanish). Editorial Andrés Bello.
- ^ Calamari, Andrea (June 2022). "El conjurado que gobernó la Antártida" (in Spanish). Jot Down.
- ^ Mancilla González, Pablo (July 1, 2011). "Antecedentes históricos sobre el Territorio Antártico Chileno conocidos hacia la década de 1950" (in Spanish). Punta Arenas: Repositorio Antártica, Universidad de Magallanes. Archived from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
- ^ Eyzaguirre, Jaime (1967). Breve historia de las fronteras de Chile (in Spanish). Editorial Universitaria.
- ^ "La Antártida de Gabriel de Castilla, otro gran español olvidado" (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 30 April 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
- ^ Juan Pablo Mañueco. "La Antártida, el otro continente que descubrió Castilla". Guadalajara Diario. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2023.