What is Circumnavigation?
[[Image:Nao Victoria.jpg|thumb|right|The Nao Victoria, a reconstruction of one of the ships use by Ferdinand Magellan to circumnavigate the world.]] [[Image:Magellan's voyage EN.svg|thumb|right|This image shows how Magellan went around the world]] [[Image:CircumnavigationByTrades.png|thumb|right|A possible route of modern-day circumnavigations. The red line shows the route. [[Trade wind]]s can be used. The route uses the [[Panama Canal]] and the [[Suez Canal]]]] '''Circumnavigation''' originally meant going around something, by [[ship]]. Usually, it means people going around the [[earth|world]]. The first known circumnavigation was done by [[Ferdinand Magellan|Fernão de Magalhães]] (Ferdinand Magellan), from 1519 to 1522. Magellan took five ships and went west, from [[Spain]]. He discovered a [[waterway]] which is now named after him, the [[Strait of Magellan]]. Magellan died in a fight with natives on the [[Philippines|Philippine island]] [[Mactan]] in April 1521. The voyage was completed under command of [[Juan Sebastián Elcano]]. Elcano returned to [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda]], where the voyage had started, with 18 survivors and valuable cargo in 1522. This proved that the earth was a [[globe]]. ==Other Famous circumnavigations== * 1577-1580 led by the Englishman [[Francis Drake]] * 1586-1588 by [[Thomas Cavendish]] * 1598-1601 by the Dutchman [[Olivier van Noort]] * 1614-1617 by [[Georg Spielberg]], a German who sailed for the Dutch * 1766-1769 by [[Louis Antoine de Bougainville]] (The first French circumnavigation) * 1803-1806 by [[Adam Johann von Krusenstern]], first Russian circumnavigation [[Category:Sailing]] {{Transport-stub}}