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People: Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans
Location: West Dean Sussex United Kingdom

The members of Álvaro de Mendaña de …

Years: 1568 - 1568

The members of Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira’s expedition are the first Europeans to sight Tuvalu (known in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the Ellice Islands) when they encounter the island of Nui ,but are unable to land.