Five hundred years ago, a Portuguese ne’er-do-well under the flag of a teenage king of Spain set forth with five ships determined to sail westward around a recently discovered South America to 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeologists show that Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions -- including what we now know as El Niño -- which ...

Ferdinand Magellan's ambitious 1519 voyage, funded by Spain, aimed to find a western route to the Spice Islands. Despite facing mutinies, starvation, and storms, his fleet discovered a passage through ...