Hernando de Grijalva

Francisco Hernández de Córdoba and then Juan de Grijalva, sent by Diego Velázquez to Mexico in 1518. News reached Velázquez that Juan de Grijalva had established

captain and commander of the expedition, Diego de Becerra [es], and San Lázaro under Capt. Hernando de Grijalva, to explore the South Seas of the Pacific Ocean

the islands exists before their discovery by Spanish explorers. Hernando de Grijalva [es] and his crew discovered an uninhabited island on 19 December

recorded sighting by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Hernando de Grijalva in 1537, who charted it as Los Pescadores (Island of the Fishermen

habitation on Socorro exists before its discovery by Spanish explorer Hernando de Grijalva [es] and his crew on 19 December 1533, who named it Santo Tomás ("St