Juan de Bermúdez was a Spanish navigator

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 of the 16th century. In 1505, while sailing back to Spain

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 from a provisioning voyage to Hispaniola

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 in the ship La Garça (or Garza), he discovered Bermuda

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, which was later named after him. Legatio Babylonica, published in 1511 by Peter Martyr d'Anghiera

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, lists "La Bermuda" among the Atlantic islands. In 1515 he returned to Bermuda, landing a dozen pigs and sows for any unlucky mariners who might later be castaway there. Bermúdez died in 1570.