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Circumnavigation
The first single voyage of global circumnavigation was that of the ship Victoria , between 1519 and 1522 , known as the Magellan -- Elcano expedition . It was a Castilian ( Spanish ) voyage of discovery , led initially by the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan between 1519 and 1521 , and then by the Basque Juan Sebastián Elcano from 1521 to 1522 . The voyage started in Seville , crossed the Atlantic Ocean , and after several stopovers rounded the southern tip of South America where the expedition discovered the Strait of Magellan , named after the fleet 's captain . It then continued across the Pacific discovering a number of islands on its way , including Guam before arriving in the Philippines . After Magellan 's death in the Philippines in 1521 , Elcano took command of the expedition and continued the journey across the Indian Ocean , round the Cape of Good Hope , north along the Atlantic Ocean , and back to Spain in 1522 . Elcano and a small group of 18 men were actually the only members of the expedition to make the full circumnavigation . 
The first single voyage of global circumnavigation was that of the ship Victoria , between 1519 and 1522 , known as the Magellan -- Elcano expedition . It was a Castilian ( Spanish ) voyage of discovery , led initially by the Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan between 1519 and 1521 , and then by the Basque Juan Sebastián Elcano from 1521 to 1522 . The voyage started in Seville , crossed the Atlantic Ocean , and after several stopovers rounded the southern tip of South America where the expedition discovered the Strait of Magellan , named after the fleet 's captain . It then continued across the Pacific discovering a number of islands on its way , including Guam before arriving in the Philippines . After Magellan 's death in the Philippines in 1521 , Elcano took command of the expedition and continued the journey across the Indian Ocean , round the Cape of Good Hope , north along the Atlantic Ocean , and back to Spain in 1522 . Elcano and a small group of 18 men were actually the only members of the expedition to make the full circumnavigation .
The first single voyage of global circumnavigation was that of the ship Victoria, between 1519 and 1522, known as the Magellan - Elcano expedition. After Magellan's death in the Philippines in 1521, Elcano took command of the expedition. Elcano and a small group of 18 men were actually the only members of the expedition to make the full circumnavigation.
The first single voyage of global circumnavigation was that of the ship Victoria , between 1519 and 1522 , known as the Magellan -- Elcano expedition . After Magellan 's death in the Philippines in 1521 , Elcano took command of the expedition and continued the journey across the Indian Ocean , round the Cape of Good Hope , north along the Atlantic Ocean , and back to Spain in 1522 . Elcano and a small group of 18 men were actually the only members of the expedition to make the full circumnavigation .