Luis Vaez de Torres sighting Cape York, 1606. Cape York Peninsula in Queensland is the northernmost extremity of Australia. Luis Vaez de Luis Vaez de Torres, a Portuguese seaman, is known for the first recorded navigation of the strait which separates Cape York from the island of New Guinea, and which was named after him (Luis Vaez de Torres Strait). Image by Gordon H. Woodhouse, (1886-1950) photographer. based on an engraving from 1886

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