Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first known circumnavigation of the globe in September 1522. The Basque navigator led the tattered remains of Magellan's fleet back to Spain after the ...

It is true that, just before Magellan set sail, that picture of the universe had been challenged by a Polish astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus. In 1514, ...

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Five days later, they sighted the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, a symbol that they were about to complete their mission. On April 30, they passed Tenerife, and on May 2, they arrived in ...

I JUST sailed near the end of the earth closer to Antarctica than anywhere else through the tip of South America. This area is the renowned Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

A replica of the ship Ferdinand Magellan sailed in his attempt to circumnavigate the globe is in Charleston this week. Tours of the Nao Trindad, a three-mast, 93-foot-long vessel, are available ...

A replica of the ship Ferdinand Magellan sailed in his attempt to circumnavigate the globe is in Charleston this week. Tours of the Nao Trindad, a three-mast, 93-foot-long vessel, are available ...