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Ferdinand Konščak
(1703 - 1759)
Croatian missionary and explorer
Croatian missionary and explorer
Croatian Jesuit missionary and explorer who mapped the Baja California peninsula.
Ferdinand Konščak was a Croatian Jesuit missionary active in New Spain.
He led expeditions in the 1740s to explore and map the western coast of Mexico's Baja California.
Konščak's surveys confirmed that Baja California was a peninsula, not an island.
His detailed journals provided valuable geographic and ethnographic information to the Spanish Crown.
His discoveries advanced understanding of North American geography and aided future colonization.
1759
Ferdinand Konščak