On March 6, 1521, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his Spanish crew landed in Guam in the Marianna chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean. The crew was starving and suffering from ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal ... The letters he sent to Magellan about the place would change the explorer's life. Back in Portugal, Magellan fell out of favour with the court.

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 ...