David Melgueiro [SEP] place of death
David Melgueiro
David Melgueiro (Porto, ? – Porto, 1673?) is supposed to have been a Portuguese navigator and explorer. He allegedly sailed across the Northeast Passage in 1660 by travelling from Japan to Portugal through the Arctic Ocean at a time when Portuguese vessels were banned from Japan.
History.
According to the story of a diplomat and French spy in Portugal, the Seigneur de La Madelène (or Madeleine), he found records that a Captain David Melgueiro, at the command of the Dutch ship "
powered icebreaker fleet based in Murmansk.
See also.
- Arctic shipping routes
- Arctic Bridge
- Arctic cooperation and politics
- Arctic policy of Russia
- David Melgueiro
- List of Russian explorers
- Northwest Passage
- Territorial claims in the Arctic
- Transpolar Sea Route
External links.
- Russian Federation Northern Sea Route Administration site, including current information on all vessels transiting
- Rules of navigation in the water area of the Northern Sea Route Ministry of Transport of Russia, January