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Mar Português (also written as Mar Portuguez) is one of the most well-known poems of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.

Originally published in the Contemporânea magazine in 1922 and later integrated to the book Mensagem (1934), Mar Português is of a notably nationalistic tone, along the rest of Mensagem. The poetry collection is divided between three themes — Brasão, Mar Português and O Encoberto — and concerns itself to the Portuguese explorations of the Age of Discovery by the characters of Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan and Prince Henry the Navigator.