Magellan Crossing
Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese: Fernão de Magalhães, ; Spanish: Fernando de Magallanes, 4 February Protected content 27 April Protected content a Portuguese explorer. He is best known for having planned and led the Protected content expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route, during which he discovered the interoceanic passage bearing thereafter his name and achieved the first European navigation from the Atlantic to Asia.
Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano set sail to gain control of the global spice trade, but end up becoming the first expedition to circumnavigate the earth. The yearslong voyage—along with the suffering, the violence and the loss of life and property—were all in pursuit of a shorter route to the so-called Spice Islands (now the Maluku Islands) and their much-coveted aromatics.
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