Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential ... The Portuguese controlled this route. But Magellan wondered if it was possible to reach the Spice Islands by going west around ...

Aboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522 ... Magellan had been commissioned by the Spanish crown to go in search of ...

En route, one ship became disabled and sailed ... While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe.