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Show Navigators Gave Philippine Ulands Two Different Names When the Portugese first reached the Philippines, they called them the Islands of the Orient because they had reached them by sailing eastward, down and around the tip of Africa. Later, the Spaniards arrived, ar-rived, and having sailed in the opposite op-posite direction and around the lower low-er end of South America, they called the Philippines the Islands of the West, demonstrating the confusion lack of knowledge could cause. |