AROUND this time of year in 1521, the explorer Ferdinand Magellan was in Philippine waters. In a little over three weeks from ...

I JUST sailed near the end of the earth closer to Antarctica than anywhere else through the tip of South America. This area is the renowned Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the ...

In Eastern Samar, the narrative of March 16, 1521 isn’t about the “discovery” of the archipelago by foreigners, but about the ...

Panama's famous canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific ... Pacific Ocean for shipping, saving it the much longer and more dangerous journey around Cape Horn or through the Strait of Magellan ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences recounts the explorations of the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano (1485 to 1528), ...

Ferdinand Magellan's expedition managed to circumnavigate ... Watson/United States Geological Survey The Pacific Ocean is ...

Ferdinand Magellan's expedition managed to circumnavigate ... plate tectonics. The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches 3-4 km deeper than the ocean bottom that they cut through.

Helen and Frank Schreider, via Anna Darrah The ungainly La Tortuga first entered the Pacific Ocean in Costa Rica in ... a 10-knot current of the Strait of Magellan to Tierra del Fuego, where ...

Polo, tango, soccer, Evita, beef, gauchos, Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls are some of what Argentina is known for.

After more than five years of landing its returning vessels off the Florida coast, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule splashed down off ...

April 4 (UPI) -- SpaceX's Fram2 mission, the first crewed mission to ever orbit Earth's North and South poles, is set to ...