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Ruy López de Villalobos
Spanish navigator
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discovery of Bonin islands
- In Bonin Islands
…discovered by the Spanish navigator Ruy López de Villalobos in 1543 and were vaguely claimed by the United States (1823) and Britain (1825), but they were formally annexed by Japan in 1876. Only a fraction of their total land area—28 square miles (73 square km)—is arable, the remainder being hilly…
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