Idealistic Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan made his name circumnavigating the world in the 1500s. In the far reaches ...

Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal into an influential ... The letters he sent to Magellan about the place would change the explorer's life. Back in Portugal, Magellan fell out of favour ...

We meet our presenters, Jenny and Wayne, before setting our chronometers to travel to the year 1492 to meet Christopher Columbus. You must enable JavaScript to play ...

Its modern-day name comes from the first known European to command a voyage through the passage, Ferdinand Magellan. Between ...