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Luís Vaz de Torres

The original official manuscript account reappeared in the collections of Sir Thomas Phillips during the 19th century.

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Dalrymple provided a sketch map which included the Queirós - Torres voyages to Joseph Banks, who undoubtedly passed this information to James Cook.

Basilaki Island

First recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Luís Vaez de Torres on 18 July 1606, that charted it as San Buenaventura (Saint Bonaventure in Spanish).

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