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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 .
Possibly Farallon Islands, California: The next day, Drake makes landfall at these California islands which lie southwest of Drake's Bay, and he names them the Islands of Saint James. Golden Hinde anchors while the crew takes seals and birds for food before they embark on the Pacific crossing. [120] 30 September– 3 October Palau, Caroline Islands
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.
1570 map by Abraham Ortelius depicting the Strait of Magellan and a then hypothetical Northwest Passage as the only passages between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Plaque commemorating Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa in Alcalá de Henares. 16th-century explorers and Spanish authorities had differing views on the Strait of Magellan.
Map of Ferdinand Magellans voyage around the world: Date: 9 November 2006: Source: own work created in Inkscape, based on Image:Magellan-Map-En.png by Knutux: Author: MesserWoland and Petr Dlouhý: Permission (Reusing this file) Own work, copyleft: Multi-license with GFDL and Creative Commons CC-BY-SA-2.5 and older versions (2.0 and 1.0) Other ...
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 the easterly route or tornaviaje in 1565. It ended two and a half centuries later, when most Pacific ports became open to world trade.
The Spanish expedition left Unalaska on August 18, 1788, heading south for California and Mexico. Due to increasing conflict between Martínez and Haro, the ships broke off contact within three days sailed south separately. Martínez had allowed this but ordered Haro to rejoin him at Monterey, California. But during the voyage south Haro, with ...
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