The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

AN ancient map of Tierra del Fuego, with ships, penguins, and dolphins, lines one cover of Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan; a map by the author, decorated in characteristic humor ...

This area is the renowned Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It is named for Magellan, as he is considered the first European to have sailed through it in ...

RACHEL Golub, Cristian Vergara, Scott Lautman and Mark Lautman completed a rare crossing of the 2.4-mile Strait of Magellan on Jan. 21 in low 40°F water (4°C). The Strait of Magellan is the most ...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan, a writer sets off in his grandfather’s wake to the deadly Cape Horn headland. When I was a child, my grandfather ...

When the weather improved, Magellan set sail again. On Oct. 21, 1520, he finally found the passageway that would come to bear his name. The Strait of Magellan is a curvy, narrow channel that ...

Magellan was convinced that by sailing west instead of east and going through a rumored strait through South America, he could map a new route to Indonesia and India. So he abandoned his ...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan, a writer sets off in his grandfather’s wake to the deadly Cape Horn headland. When I was a child, my grandfather ...