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Suggested themes for new road names - M-P


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To assist Councils and developers with proposals for new road names the following themes may be considered:

Maritime

Minerals

Mines

Mining Equipment

Mountains – Western Australia

Mountains – Australian

Mountains – Europe

Mountains - Asia

Motorcycles

Mythology

Nautical

National Parks – Western Australia

National Parks – Australian

National Parks - International

Naval

Operas

Personalities

Pioneers

Pirates, Privateers, Corsairs
NameBornDiedTitle
  • Lope de Aguirre
c. 15181561Spanish adventurer
  • Hernando de Alarcon
Unknown 16th CenturySpanish adventurer
  • King Alfonso V
1432 1481 King of Portugal
  • Diego de Almagro
1475 1538 Spanish soldier/sailor
  • Pedro de Alvarado
1435 1481 Spanish Conquistador
  • Princess Alvilda (fictional)
Unknown Unknown Pirate
  • Captain Thomas Anstis
Unknown 1723 English sailor/pirate
  • Louis Michel Aury
1788 1821 French sailor/pirate
  • Pedro Menendez de Aviles
15191574 Spanish sailor/explorer
  • William Baffin
Unknown 1622 English explorer
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
1475 1519 Spanish Explorer
  • Captain Balestrier
Unknown c. 1742Majorcan Corsair
  • Aruj Barbarossa
c. 14731518 Corsair
  • Khair ad Din Barbarossa
c. 14751546 Corsair
  • Willem Barents
1550 1597 Dutch Explorer
  • Sebastian de Belalcazar
1495 1551 Spanish Explorer
  • Samuel Bellamy
Unknown 1717 English Pirate
  • Stede Bonnet
Unknown 1718 English Pirate
  • Anne Bonny
Unknown 1720 Female Pirate
  • George Booth
Unknown c. 1710English Pirate
  • Etienne Brule
c. 15921633 French Explorer
  • Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca
c. 14901557 Spanish Explorer
  • John Cabot
1450 1499 English Explorer
  • Sebastian Cabot
1476 1557 Venetian Explorer
  • Pedro Alvarez Cabral
1467 1520 Portuguese Explorer
  • John Callice
Unknown 1587 English Pirate
  • Juan Sebastian del Cano
1476 1526 Spanish Explorer
  • Jacques Cartier
1491 1557 French Explore
  • Thomas Cavendish
1560 1592 English Buccaneer
  • Samuel de Champlain
1567 1635 French Explore
  • Roberto Cofresí
1791 1825 Puerto Rican Pirate
  • Christopher Columbus
1451 1506 Portuguese Explorer
  • Christopher Condent
Unknown 1770 English Pirate
  • Francisco Ferdinand de Cordoba
1475 1526 Spanish Explore
  • Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
1510 1554 Spanish Explorer
  • Gaspar & Miguel Corte-Real
1412 1502 Portuguese Explorers
  • Hernando Cortez
1485 1547 Spanish Explorer
  • Juan de la Cosa
1460 1510 Spanish Explorer
  • John Coxon
Unknown Unknown English Buccaneer
  • Robert Culliford
Unknown June, 1719English Pirate
  • William Dampier
1652 1715 English Privateer
  • Howell Davis
Unknown June, 1719Welsh Pirate
  • John Davis
1550 1605 English Explore
  • Daniel Defoe
1660 April, 1731English Explorer
  • Bartolomeu Dias
1450 1500 Portuguese Explorer
  • Bernal Diaz del Castillo
c. 1492c. 1581Spanish Explorer
  • Juan Diaz de Solis
1470 1516 Spanish Explorer
  • Sir Francis Drake
c. 15401596 English Privateer
  • Jean Thomas Dulaien
Unknown 1695 French Privateer
  • Peter Easton
1570(?)1619(?)English Pirate
  • James Ferguson
Unknown 1717 Scottish Pirate
  • Martin Fernandez de Encisco
1470 1528 Spanish Explorer
  • Edward England
Unknown 1720 Privateer
  • Eustace the Monk
13th cent1217 English Privateer
  • John Evans
Unknown 1724 English Pirate
  • Henry Every
Unknown 1695 English Pirate
  • Juan Fernandez
c. 15361604 Spanish Explore
  • Martin Frobisher
1535 1595 English Explorer
  • Vasco da Gama
1460 1524 Portuguese Explorer
  • José Gaspar (aka. "Gasparilla")
Never Never Fictional Pirate
  • Charles Gibbs
Unknown 1831 American Pirate
  • Sir Humphrey Gilbert
1539 1583 English Explorer
  • Nathaniel Gordon
1834 1862 American Pirate
  • Sir Richard Grenville
1542 1591 English Explorer
  • Juan de Grijalva
1480 1527 Spanish Explorer
  • John Harrison
1693 1776 English Explorer
  • John Hawkins
1451 1506 English Privateer
  • Henry the Navigator
1394 1460 Portuguese Explorer
  • Benjamin Hornigold
1532 1595 English Privateer
  • Henry Hudson
c. 15651611 English Explorer
  • Domingo Martinez de Irala
14511566 Spanish Explorer
  • Henry Johnson
Unknown Unknown English Pirate
  • Thomas Jones
Unknown Unknown English Pirate
  • John Julian
Unknown 1733 (?) Mosquito Indian Pirate
  • William Kidd
1645 1701 Scottish Pirate
  • John King
Unknown 1717 English Pirate
  • Jean Lafitte
Unknown 1821 American Pirate
  • François l'Olonnais
Unknown 1668 French Pirate
  • Edward Low
Unknown 1724 English Pirate
  • George Lowther
Unknown 1723 English Pirate
  • Ferdinand Magellan
1480 1521 Portuguese Explorer
  • Captain Christopher Mings
Unknown 1666 English Pirate
  • Henry Morgan
c. 16351688 English Pirate
  • Luis de Moscoso Alvarado
1505 1551 Spanish Explorer
  • Panfilo de Narváez
1478 1528 Spanish Explorer
  • Jean David Nau
Unknown 1668 French Pirate
  • Noland Richard
Unknown Unknown English Pirate
  • Nathaniel North
Unknown 1707 English Pirate
  • John Nutt
Unknown Unknown English Pirate
  • Alonso de Ojeda
c. 14651515 Spanish Explorer
  • Grace O'Malley
c. 1530Unknown Female Irish Pirate
  • Juan de Oñate
c. 15501630 Spanish Explorer
  • Francisco de Orellana
c. 14901546 Spanish Explorer
  • William Parker
Unknown 1617 English Pirate
  • Martin Alonso Pinzón
c. 15651611 Spanish Explorer
  • Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
1463 1514 Spanish Explorer
  • Francisco Pizarro
c. 14751541 Spanish Explorer
  • Marco Polo
1254 1323 (?)Venetian Explorer
  • Juan Ponce de Leon
1460 1521 Spanish Explorer
  • Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesado
c. 15091579 Spanish Explorer
  • Hendrick Quintor
Unknown 1717 Spanish Pirate
  • “Calico” Jack Rackham
Unknown 1720 English Pirate
  • Sir Walter Raleigh
1554 1618 English Privateer
  • Mary Read
Unknown 1720 English Female Pirate
  • Manuel Pardal Rivero
Unknown 1670 Spanish Private
  • Joseph Rivers
Unknown 1717 English Pirate
  • Bartholomew Roberts
Unknown 1723 English Pirate
  • Woodes Rogers
1679(?)1732 English Privateer
  • Cheng I Sao (aka Ching Shih)
1775 1844 Chinese Female Pirate
  • Simon Simonson
Unknown 1609 Dutch Pirate
  • Hernando de Soto
c. 1496 (?)1542 Spanish Explorer
  • Francis Spriggs
Unknown c. 1725 (?)English Explorer
  • Gertrude Imogene Stubbs
1879 1921 English Female Pirate
  • Edward Teach (aka "Blackbeard")
Unknown 1718 English Pirate
  • Guillame Le Testu
c. 15091572 French Pirate
  • Thomas Tew
Unknown 1695 English Pirate
  • Pedro de Valdivia
1498 1554 Spanish Explorer
  • Charles Vane
Unknown 1719 Pirate
  • Diego Velasquez de Cuellar
1465 1524 Spanish Explorer
  • Giovanni da Verrazano
1485 1528 Italian Explorer
  • Amerigo Vespucci
c.1454 1512 Italian Explorer
  • Sebastian Vizcaino
1550 1615 Spanish Explorer
  • Welser Family
15th Century17th CenturyGerman Merchants
  • Godeke Wessels
Unknown 1402 German Privateer
  • Palgrave Williams
Unknown Unknown English Pirate
  • Richard Worley
Unknown 1718 English Pirate
  • John Yeates
Unknown Unknown English Pirate

Poets

Ports

Precious Stones
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