Ferdinand Magellan 插畫檔

Vintage engraving from 1878 of a portrait of Ferdinand Magellan. A Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands". Magellan's expedition of 1519 to 1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean, the first to cross the Pacific. It also completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth, although Magellan himself did not complete the entire voyage, being killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines.