Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal ... The Portuguese court was not interested in Magellan's plan for a voyage to the Spice Islands via the Americas. Magellan took his idea to the Spanish ...

AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in ... the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean. Magellan's voyage redid the map of the known world. He discovered the Pacific ...

we repudiated the hard truth that it was the discovery of the archipelago by Magellan's voyage, with its longitude and latitude coordinates charted, that completed the map of the world.