Álvaro Martins
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Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer alleged to have explored the western Atlantic and later the African coast. He is claimed to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on an undocumented expedition to Terra Nova do Bacalhau in the early 1470s, by Gaspar Frutuoso in his 1570s book Saudades da Terra.
