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Bookmark or Share- Ferdinand Magellan - Circumnavigation, Exploration, VoyageCircumnavigation of the globe of Ferdinand Magellan. Voyages of Ferdinand Magellan (1519–22) and Francis Drake (1577–80) across the Atlantic Ocean and around the globe. After Magellan’s death only two of the ships, the Trinidad and the Victoria, reached the Moluccas.
- How The U.S. Won the Race to Circumnavigate the Globe by Air“The aerial circumnavigation of the planet was the latest in a global pursuit to conquer the skies,” writes Rob Crotty for Prologue Magazine. “Since the Wright brothers at the turn of the ...
- Circumnavigation - WikipediaCircumnavigation. The Magellan-Elcano expedition was the first circumnavigation of the Earth. Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon ). This article focuses on the circumnavigation of Earth .
- Magellan, Elcano and the Ordeal of the First Circumnavigation of the EarthOpenMind. BBVA’s knowledge community. Time 6 to read. A commercial airliner today would take about 50 hours to complete a turn around the maximum circumference of the Earth, the Equator, a distance of 40,000 kilometers. Five hundred years ago, however, little was known about the real size of our planet.
- Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globeby Mark Cartwright. published on 29 June 2020. Available in other languages: French, Spanish. The English mariner, privateer, and explorer Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596 CE) made his circumnavigation of the world between 1577 and 1580 CE.
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