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The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Its initial purpose was to cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to secure a trade route with the Moluccas , or Spice Islands, in present-day Indonesia .
The Magellan expedition (10 August or 20 September 1519 – 6 September 1522) was the first voyage around the world in human history. It was a Spanish expedition that sailed from Seville in 1519 under the initial command of Ferdinand Magellan , a Portuguese sailor, and completed in 1522 by Spanish Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano .
Magellan was born in northern Portugal, possibly around 1480. [10] [note 1] His father, Pedro de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility [13] and mayor of the town. His mother was Alda de Mezquita. [14] Magellan's siblings included Diogo de Sousa and Isabel Magellan. [15] He was brought up as a page of Queen Eleanor, consort of ...
The first navigator to cross the Pacific from west to east was Andres de Urdaneta, who discovered the easterly route across the Pacific from the Philippines to Mexico in 1565. The first transpacific trade route in history was the Spanish Manila galleon route which lasted from 1565 to 1815 and followed navigator Andres de Urdaneta's discovery of ...
Also oldest woman at the time (aged 70) to do the same thing 2012–2013, [36] also making her first woman to make solo non-stop unassisted circumnavigation from west coast of North America (Victoria BC, Canada). Oldest, in 2010–2011 (aged 68), to sail single-handedly around the world, with stops.
Land adjacent to the Strait of Magellan has been inhabited by indigenous Americans for at least 13,000 years. Upon their arrival in the region, they would have encountered native equines (), the large ground sloth Mylodon, saber toothed cats the extinct jaguar subspecies Panthera onca mesembrina, the bear Arctotherium, the superficially camel-like Macrauchenia, the fox-like canid Dusicyon avus ...
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 ...
As trading routes over the seas were established by the works of Columbus, Magellan, and Elcano, land support system was established as the trails of Cortés' conquest to the capital. Human infections gained worldwide transmission vectors for the first time: from Africa and Eurasia to the Americas and vice versa .