Guy stranded on island screensaver4/3/2024 ![]() Gonzalo de Vigo was the first recorded European castaway in the history of the Pacific Ocean. He lived with the Chamorros for four years and visited thirteen main islands in the Marianas until he was unexpectedly found in Guam in 1526 by the flagship of the Loaísa Expedition, on its way to the Spice Islands and the second circumnavigation of the globe. Gonzalo de Vigo was a Spanish sailor ( Galician) who deserted from Gonzalo Gómez de Espinosa's Trinidad, part of the Spanish expedition of Ferdinand Magellan, while in the Maug Islands in August 1522. He then punished two others: the King of Spain's delegate, Juan de Cartagena and the priest, Pedro Sánchez Reina, by marooning them in that desolate place. Magellan put it down and executed some of the ringleaders. In April 1520, a mutiny broke out in Magellan's fleet while at the Patagonian seashore. Juan de Cartagena and Pedro Sánchez Reina Edit For the rest of his life – he died about 1545 – Lopes stayed on the island, except for two years around 1530, when the Portuguese king helped him travel to Rome, where the Pope granted him absolution for his sin of apostasy. He had lost his right hand, the thumb of his left hand, his nose, and his ears as punishment for mutiny and apostasy for converting to Islam. The Portuguese soldier Fernão Lopes was marooned on the island of Saint Helena in 1513. ![]()
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