While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe. As a boy, Magellan studied mapmaking and navigation.

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish riches that sustained Elizabeth I's empire Eli Wizevich Page 1 of 1 ...

From Magallanes' capital city, Punta Arenas, you can journey to Torres del Paine ... (named after 16th-century conquistador Ferdinand Magellan)—to admire Patagonia's breathtaking landscape.

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 ...