Captain Luis Vaez de Torres discovered the Torres Strait Islands in 1606.
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Luis Vaez de Torres is noted for the first recorded navigation of the strait which separates the continent of Australia from the island of New Guinea, and which now bears his name (Torres Strait).
I believe it was Jacques Cartier who discovered the Strait of Belle Isle and explored to Gulf to St. Lawrence.
There are more than 50 islands in Bass Strait, but the two largest ones are King Island and Flinders Island. Flinders is part of a larger group of islands known as the Furneaux Group.
Probably Australia but he was unaware of it. He is mainly remembered today for the Strait that bears his name between Australia and New Guinea.
Most remote islands are already discovered. Most likely there's no more undiscovered islands.