João Gonçalves Zarco
João Gonçalves Zarco (about 1390 - 1470) was a navigator and Explorateur Portuguese, noble of the House of Henri the navigator.
Captain of caravel S, it approached in 1419 the island of Oporto-Santo with Tristão Vaz Teixeira: following a storm, it found refuge on this island which drew its name from it.
The following year (1420) it approached the island of Madeira (interview at the time of the preceding voyage), in company of Bartolomeu Perestrelo. He immediately undertook the colonization of the island, then deserted, and founded Funchal in 1421. The Madeira having been divided into two parts, Zarco was named captain-governor of that of Funchal, that of Machico being reserved for Tristão Vaz Teixeira. For its part, Bartolomeu Perestrelo became governor of Oporto-Santo.
These discoveries open the period of the Grandes discoveries and begin the constitution from the Portuguese colonial empire.
Although João Gonçalves Zarco is one of the large Portuguese navigators, it does not have yet of French biographer. Its life and its discoveries of Oporto Santo and Madeira are however largely evoked in the novel of Arkan Simaan ( the Rider of Henri the Navigator ).
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