Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magellan's ships pioneered a new route to the spice islands - North Wind Picture Archives / Alamy Stock Photo Aboard Ferdinand ...

Professor Rafael Rodriguez-Ponga shared how the word "Pacific" has ties to Guam as it was first documented during Ferdinand Magellan's voyage 500 years ago. This year, Guam commemorates the 500-year ...

Nearly 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan started the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, landing on Guam a couple of years into his journey, in March 1521. As governments, universities and ...

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the ...

In November 1520, when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan came out from the storm-tossed waters of the strait which now bears his name, he encountered a vast expanse of calm sea. According to the ...

About Ferdinand Magellan. Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–1522 ...

The expedition to the Spice Islands becomes an unexpectedly long, arduous trip for Ferdinand Magellan and his crew. While he believed the Islands to be only 600 nautical miles away from the tip of ...

The year 2021 will mark the 500th anniversary of Ferdinand Magellan's journey around the globe. Ahead of this historic date, researchers have been following his tracks on board a sailboat led by the ...

Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time. The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the ...