Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite ...

If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese mariner who sailed on behalf of Spain in 1519. But Magellan ...

Historian Laurence Bergreen joins Host Larry Mantle to tell the tale of the greatest maritime voyage of discovery, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, from 1519-1522. It has been over ...

It was the 16th Century’s equivalent of the Apollo 11 moon landing. On Sept. 20, 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan left Sanlucar de Barrameda on the southwest coast of Spain with five small ...

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - Ferdinand Magellan began the world's first attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 1519. After Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, Spain desperately sought a western ...

MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms as a ...

WASHINGTON -- The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago. Explorer Ferdinand Magellan ...

A replica of the flagship of Magellan-Elcano’s expedition that led to the first circumnavigation of the globe, the Nao Trinidad, arrives in St. Augustine this February. She will dock at St. Augustine ...