When European explorers first began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, they were searching for new routes to China and the ...

Magellan's Mistake - Ferdinand Magellan has made a very, very big mistake. Determined to circumnavigate the world, and cross the ocean Balboa had sighted in 1513, he’d just finished a perilous ...

One of the most tragic shipwrecks on the Washington coast hit Nov. 4, 1875. The Pacific left Victoria, B.C. in the morning ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential family. His parents died when he was 10 and he was sent to the queen's court. When he was 12, he became a page for the queen.

The Trinidad is a full-size replica of the tall ship Magellan-Elcan, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe between 1519 ...

In 1986, VRM was renamed Magellan for the 16th-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, first to circumnavigate the globe. Like its Age of Sail namesake, Magellan would unveil a new world ...

The series begins with a song celebrating two great explorers - Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan. We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to ...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (WFLA) — A replica of the flagship in Ferdinand Magellan’s historic expedition struck the Bridge of Lions Monday as it was coming into port in St. Augustine. The St ...

Ferdinand Magellan The Ferdinand Magellan is unique among Pullman railroad cars in that it is the only car ever custom built for the President of the United States in the 20th century. Originally ...

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 ...

The story surrounds adventurer Rick, Egyptologist Evelyn and her clumsy brother who mistakenly wakes up a sleeping mummy ...

The Nao Trinidad is a full-size replica of the tall ship Magellan-Elcan, the first ship to circumnavigate the globe between 1519 and 1522, proving that the world was round. Commanded by Ferdinand ...