Da Cunha Family

Connected Sites: 3

Family of Portuguese Explorers and Naval/Army commanders noteable in the early 16th Century.

Connected Sites

  • Churches and Convents of Goa
    Churches and Convents of Goa
    India
    Inscribed: 1986
    3.27
    93
    10
    Nuno da Cunha, son of Tristan, was Governor of the Portuguese "Estado da ?ndia" from 1529-38 and transferred its capital from Cochi to Goa in 1538 where it remained througout the Imperial period.
  • Socotra Archipelago
    Socotra Archipelago
    Yemen
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.79
    20
    3
    Tristan da Cunha captured it in 1507
  • Gough and Inaccessible Islands
    Gough and Inaccessible Islands
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.55
    8
    3
    Tristan da Cunha was the first person to record having seen the archipelago which includes Inaccessible Island