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ALARCON, HERNANDO DE

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 469 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: AJA-ALL
ALARCON, HERNANDO DE , Spanish navigator of the 16th
century
 , is known only in connexion with the expedition to the
coast
  of
California
 , of which he was
leader
 . He set sail on the 9th of May 1540 with orders from the Spanish
court
  to await at a certain point on the
coast
  the arrival of an expedition by
land
  under the command of Vasquez de Coronado. The junction was not effected, though Alarcon reached the appointed place and left letters, which were afterwards found by Diaz, another explorer. Alarcon was the first to determine with certainty that
California
  was a peninsula and not an
island
 , as had been supposed. He made a careful survey of the coast, ascended the Rio del Tizon or Rio de Buena Guia (Colorado) for 85 Spanish m., and was thus able on his return to New Spain in 1541 to construct an excellent map of California.
See Herrera, Decade VI.
book
  ix. ch. 15; vol. vi. fol. 212 of Madrid edition of 1730.


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