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 ...
The explorer died on a Philippines beach in April 1521, joining the scores who perished in Spain's quest to circumnavigate the globe. At the southernmost tip of South America lies a perilous strait ...
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 ...