- Bacallao was a phantom island depicted on several early 16th century Portuguese maps and nautical charts
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Bacalao&Sonne - Live facts
- The name first appears on a chart in 1508, but there are earlier accounts of Bacalao
- Bacallao literally means "cod" or "stockfish"
- According to Gaspar Frutuoso in his work Sa�s da Terra, written in the 1570s, the Portuguese navigator João Vaz Corte-Real in 1472 was granted lands in the Azores by the king of Portugal, because of his discovery of the Terras do Bacalhau
- Historians do not consider the work of Frutuoso as very reliable, as it contains a great deal of misinformation
- But, Bartolomé de Las Casas also wrote about Portuguese voyages of discovery to Tierra de los Bacallao
- There has been speculation that Corte-Real reached the Americas a couple of decades before Columbus
- Off the northeast tip of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, is an island named Baccalao
- Its European name was originally in the French language
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