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Aug 27, 2014 · The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe, but the reality of his journey is a bit more complicated. Magellan...
Jun 4, 2024 · Moreover, being the first to traverse the “Sea of the South” from east to west, he demonstrated the immensity of the Pacific Ocean and the challenges it posed to navigation. Finally, the idea of the voyage itself had relied on the not-undisputed idea of a spherical Earth .
John Hunter commanded the first ship to circumnavigate the World starting from Australia, between 2 September 1788 and 8 May 1789, with one stop in Cape Town to load supplies for the colony of New South Wales. HMS Driver completed the first circumnavigation by a steam ship in 1845–1847.
Aug 31, 2022 · By steering the frail Victoria across the Indian Ocean and around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope back to Spain, Elcano completed the first known circumnavigation of the world, a total journey of...
Oct 29, 2009 · Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean.
On September 20, 1519, five ships carrying about 270 men left the Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda sailing west — and kept going. Led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the armada’s goal was to reach the Spice Islands of Maluku (in the Indonesian archipelago) and open a new trading route for Spain.
Jun 16, 2021 · Ferdinand Magellan is most famous for leading the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1519-22 (even if he himself died in the Philippines mid-way). His route around the tip of South America was named after him, the Magellan Straits.
