Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential ... The Portuguese controlled this route. But Magellan wondered if it was possible to reach the Spice Islands by going west around ...

AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was ... the Philippines for the West. The Magellan voyage's aim was to find a shorter route to the Moluccas, the source of spices ...

En route, one ship became disabled and sailed ... While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe.

It was named after the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, who became the first ... it was an important sailing-ship route before the building of the Panama Canal (completed in 1914 ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...