The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan Sebastián Elcano, stands as one of history’s greatest maritime ...

The film takes its title from Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, played by Bernal, who set sail in the early 1500s across the Atlantic in search of Far East riches. FEATURED STORIES.

AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from today, 504 years ago, he would be dead, killed by tribesmen led by ...

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The ships spent the Southern Hemisphere winter in port and began to traverse the Strait of Magellan on August 20. By the time they reached the Pacific Ocean, facing anything but pacific conditions ...

Magellan’s first mapping cycle from September 1990 to May 1991 imaged 83.7 percent of the surface, achieving resolutions as fine as 300 feet (100 m) — 10 times sharper than ever before.

The Nao Trinidad, a replica of one of Ferdinand Magellan's 16th-century tall ships which sailed around the world. There will be a brief welcoming ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. at ...

There will be a brief welcoming ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 5 p.m. at 102 Pope's Island, New Bedford. The ship will be open for tours from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 11-15.

Explorers and mapmakers called uncharted lands Terra Incognita. Though Columbus’s expeditions revealed parts of the New World, some regions remained isolated and mysterious. One such blank spot ...

For instance, Francis Drake passed through the region aboard the Golden Hind, on his way to the Strait of Magellan, during his three-year global voyage (1577-1580), and his ship’s chaplain, Francis ...