The series begins with a song celebrating two great explorers - Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan ... our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus.

Some of these explorers, like Christopher Columbus, are both celebrated and vilified today. Others, like Ferdinand Magellan ...

Ferdinand Magellan was ... They conquered Malacca in August that year. One of his friends carried on to the Spice Islands. The letters he sent to Magellan about the place would change the ...

Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan first arrived here about 500 years ago, cruising through Tierra del Fuego's remote straits on a quest for Asian spices. And in the 1800s, Charles Darwin ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher ... in time to 1519 to meet Ferdinand Magellan, who was responsible for ...