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Title:The Prado Controversy: papers concerning the alleged discovery of Australia by the Spanish navigators, Torres and Prado; collected and edited by Sir William Dixson, from various sources, with his own notes and cuttings from periodicals and newspapers, 1925-February 1951Creator:- William Dixson, Sir, 1870-1952
Level of description:- fonds
Date of work:1925-February 1951Type of material:- Textual Records
- Cartographic Materials
- Clippings
Call number:- DLWD 56
- DLWD 57
- DLWD 58
- DLWD 59
- 2Title:Luis Vaes de Torres papers, 1605-1946Creator:
- Luis Vaez de Torres, active 1606.
Level of description:- fonds
Date of work:1605-1946Type of material:- Textual Records
Call number:- A 1972
- A 2508
- A 2518/vol. 1
- A 2518/vol. 2
- C 403
Issue copy:- Microfilm: CY 4631, frames 116 - 145 (C 403)
- 3Title:Two manuscript accounts of Boenechea's expeditions to Tahiti in 1772-1773 and 1774-1775Level of description:
- fonds
Date of work:1772-1775Type of material:- Textual Records
Issue copy:- : Other surviving contemporary examples of Boenechea’s description can be found at the Museo Naval in Madrid (Manuscrito 476) and at the Archivo de la Casa de Medina Sidonia in Sanlúcar de Barrameda. A slightly different version of Boenechea’s account (referencing onlty Boenechea’s first voyage) was published by Bolton Glanvil Corney, ‘The quest and occupation of Tahiti by emissaries of Spain during the years 1772-1776’ (London : Hakluyt Society Publications, vol. 41, pp. 284-345).