Joining the Philippine Map Collectors Society, as we approach the 500th anniversary of the arrival of the Magellan expedition and the first circumnavigation of the world in the 16th century, made me ...

“Magellan should not be seen as the beginning of Philippine history but one event [in] a history that still has to be written and rewritten for a new generation.” A 1545 map traces the route ...

The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...