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 ...

Magellan’s Voyage—Search for the Spice Islands, a documentary commemorating the first circumnavigation of the globe, has been licensed by ZDF Enterprises to the New York public broadcaster WNET.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This biography of Ferdinand Magellan, who in 1519 commanded the "most remarkable and perilous [voyage] in seafaring history," rarely captures the drama of its subject. Not only does the pageantry of ...