Magellan Enters "The Sea of the South"

Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan with three ships under his command, entered "The Sea of the South" on November 28, 1520. 

He sailed the Atlantic Ocean earlier, through the dangerous straits below South America which is now known as the Straight of Magellan. 

This earned for him as the first European to reach the Pacific from the Atlantic. 

This was the first westward crossing from the Pacific. Magellan and his fleet arrived at the island of Guam on March 6, 1521.

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