Padrão
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A padrão is a stone pillar left by Portuguese maritime explorers in the 15th and 16th centuries to record significant landfalls and thereby establish primacy and possession. They were often placed on
Replica of a padrão placed by Diogo Cão on Cape Cross, Namibia.
Limestone cross on the Vasco da Gama Pillar in Malindi displaying the coat of arms of Portugal
Luso-Sundanese padrão
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The Luso-Sundanese padrão is a padrão commemorating a treaty between the kingdoms of Portugal and Sunda, better known as the Luso-Sundanese Treaty of Sunda Kalapa.
Padrão
…a treaty with the Sunda Kingdom and in commemoration he raised a padrão at the kingdom's main port, Sunda Kalapa, now part of Jakarta, Indonesia. The Luso Sundanese padrão was rediscovered in 1918 and is exhibited at the National Museum of Indonesia. Other notable explorers known to have erected padrões include Pero da…
Padrão of Sunda Kalapa (1522), Indonesian National Museum, Jakarta.
Replica of the Luso-Sundanese Padrão Monument at Jakarta History Museum