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El origen sevillano de la isla de Guadalcanal

Guadalcanal, Sierra Norte, Seville

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El origen sevillano de la isla de Guadalcanal

Curiosity · Guadalcanal, Sierra Norte, Seville

Image of Guadalcanal, not of the place itself.

Pedro de Ortega Valencia, a native of this town and an officer on Álvaro de Mendaña's Pacific expedition (1567-1569), gave the name of his hometown to Guadalcanal island, in the Solomon Islands, later the scene of a famous battle of the Second World War.

1567-1569

Photo: Jl FilpoC (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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