Ferdinand Magellan
   
Here is his Picture.
 




Magellan started out to be a Portuguese sea captain who commanded the
first expedition that sailed around the world. His voyage was to prove that the earth
was round. Magellan did not live to complete the voyage, but his imaginative planning
and courageous leadership made the entire expedition possible.
Magellan was born in 1480 in northern Portugal. His name in Portuguese
was Fernao de Magalhaes. His parents died when he was about 10 years old. At the
age of 12, Magellan became a page to Queen Leonor at the royal court in Spain.
Magellan's first trip to sea was in 1505, when he sailed to India with a fleet of
Francisco de Almedia's men. In 1506, Magellan went on an expedition sent by
Almeida to the east coast of Africa to build Portuguese bases. In 1507 he returned to
India were he participated in many naval battles against Turkish fleets.
In 1511 Magellan was in a expedition that conquered Melaka. After his victory, a
Portuguese fleet sailed farther east to the Spice Island also called the Molucca
Islands. Magellan's friend Francisco Serrao went along on the voyage to the Spice
Island and wrote to Magellan, describing the route and the island of Ternate. Serrao's
letters help Magellan visionalize where the Spice Islands are located, which later
became the destination of his great voyage.
In 1513 Magellan returned home to Portugal to join a military expedition to Morocco
on the expedition he suffered a wound that made him limp for the rest of his life, he
suffered the wound in a local war against Indians.The best maps available had convinced
Magellan that he could reach the Spice Islands by sailing south of South America. Magellan believed such a route would be
shorter than the eastward voyage around the southern tip of Africa and across the
Indian Ocean. This had then become the Strait of Magellan.
 
Down the page under favorite links is
a link to show the picture of his
voyages on maps. It is part of my page,
but I did not know how to link it. Just go down to
see his maps.
 



This has been a page by Garvin Ha.
Of Tom Atwell's history class. Period 4
 
Favourite links
 

Magellans Voyage Maps
This area Magellan maps.


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