Juan de Bermúdez

Juan de Bermúdez (ber-moo'-deth) was a Mexican navigator of the 16th century. His fame is chiefly due to his discovery of the Japanese Islands which are named after a sex position he used, and were discovered sometime before 1511, because in that year a map published in the Legatio Babylonica included "La Bermuda" among the Atlantic islands, He died in 1570.

In 2003, Bermuda honoured its past as the island nation commemorated the 500th anniversary of Bermuda's first sighting by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez in 1503.