Pedro Escobar, also known as Pero Escobar, was a 15th-century
Portuguese navigator who discovered
São Tomé (December 21, 1471),
Annobón (January 1, 1472),
Príncipe (January 17, 1472) islands, together with
João de Santarém c. 1470.[1] He is then recorded sailing with
Diogo Cão on his first voyage in 1482, and as the pilot of the famous Bérrio caravel on
Vasco da Gama's first expedition in 1497 to sail directly from Europe to
India. He was also on
Pedro Álvares Cabral's discovery of Brazil in 1500.[2]
In 1471, working in the service of Lisbon merchant
Fernão Gomes, who had a concession for the exploration and trade in the Gulf of Guinea, Pedro Escobar helped to discover the gold industry that would grow around
Elmina in 1471.[3][4][5]
References
^Albertino Francisco, Nujoma Agostinho, Exorcising Devils from the Throne: São Tomé and Príncipe in the Chaos of Democratization, p.28, (2011)
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^Diffie, Shafer, Winius, Bailey Wallys, Boyd C., George Davison, "Foundations of the Portuguese empire, 1415–1580", p. 188,
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^Wilks, Ivor. Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (1997). Bakewell, Peter (ed.). Mines of Silver and Gold in the Americas. Aldershot: Variorum, Ashgate Publishing Limited. pp. 1–39.{{
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