version of this ( is the feminine article in Galician/Portuguese, and Galician for "island" is feminine, so would mean "the Galician [Island]"). or simply "from Galicia". A further, less likely, idea comes from a story in Sir Robert Scott's book Limuria: The Lesser Dependencies of Mauritius, where he describes the 1509 discovery of the Islands by the Portuguese mariner Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. According to this version, Diogo named the Islands , with the "" referring to putative gale-force winds hypothetically modelling the coasts of both islands. Scott suggests that maps of the region represented the islands initially as Gale, metamorphosing into Galera, Galega and finally Agalega. A proxy evolution within the Portuguese system in the Indian Ocean points out "As Ilhas do Almirante Vasco da Gama" (in short, "Amirante Islands" where de L with Celtic pronunciation was dropped, or more broadly the Seychelles Archipelago), along with "As Ilhas do Almirante Pedro Mascarenhas" (nowadays referred as Mascarene Islands), as its original context, a combination which have not included Agalega Islands, in the middle of these two admiral-alike designations. Then again, "As Ilhas da Almirante Galega", a reference to Isabel Barreto, the first woman in the history of the navy who have reached the rank of admiral, was the novelty picked down when the problem solving of the islands nomination have been unleashed. Her life pathway matches the context of have been living along with two admirals, surely in two different marriages. So, the Archipelago of Agalega shares in the Indian Ocean geography a similar context. Thus, to supress an original lack of nomination and at the same time to avoid to step down from the admiral standard, of the two more nearby patrons, all together points in this direction. "A Galega", as an expression of the Portuguese rural world is applied to any person who have born northwards of the river Douro, Portuguese or from the Kingdom of Galicia, both with origin in the Roman Gallaecia. History As with the Mascarene islands, these islands may have been known to Arab and Malay sailors, although no written records have been found to confirm this. Agalega, or Galega, was examined by Captain Briggs of HMS Clorinde, on the 12th of January, 1811, who seems to have fixed its location accurately, which was previously not the case. The landing was found to be difficult on account of the heavy surf, the island being