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Ilha de Vera Cruz
Ilha de Vera Cruz, (Portuguese for Island of the True Cross), was the first name given by the Portuguese navigators under D. Pedro Ălvares Cabral, who first officially touched land in South America, on April 21, 1500, in what later became Brazil.
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