John Mullen has learnt a lot from the likes of Matthew Flinders, the first man to circumnavigate Australia, and 16th-century ...

opening up the spice trade and European colonization Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) – Portuguese explorer Impact: Organized the Spanish expedition that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the ...

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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 ...

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On his voyage in 1892, Charles Darwin wrote, "On our weather-bow this notorious promontory in its proper form—veiled in a mist, and its dim outline surrounded by a storm of wind and water." ...

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The vast majority of voyages at sea pass without incident ... But, as the great explorer Ferdinand Magellan once said, “The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have ...