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The location of the lost colony of San Miguel de Gualdape, based on historical accounts and texts, particularly Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias.
Scholars have proposed several candidate locations for San Miguel de Gualdape—most often Winyah Bay/Pee Dee (South Carolina), Sapelo Sound/Sapelo Island (Georgia), or the Savannah River—yet no archaeo...
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo’s Historia general y natural de las Indias stands as one of the few near‑contemporary, widely disseminated textual anchors for the lost colony of San Miguel de Gualdape, an...
San Miguel de Gualdape’s precise location remains contested between competing South Carolina and Georgia claims, with substantial scholarly advocacy on both sides grounded in readings of 16th‑century ...