You get a new sense of respect for cloves and nutmeg watching “Magellan’s Crossing,” part of the new season of the long-running PBS series “Secrets of the Dead.” The yearslong voyage depicted—along ...

USS Nimitz is rounding South America as part of a homeport shift from Naval Base Kitsap, Bremerton, Wash., to Naval Station Norfolk, Va.

LOS ANGELES, California, January 28. RACHEL Golub, Cristian Vergara, Scott Lautman and Mark Lautman completed a rare crossing of the 2.4-mile Strait of Magellan on Jan. 21 in low 40°F water (4°C). The ...

Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition resulted in the first circumnavigation of the globe. 500 years ago, Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set sail to gain control of the global spice trade. What resulted ...

Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, Sept. 1 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 Five hundred years ago, Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan and his crew ...

The expedition to the Spice Islands becomes an unexpectedly long, arduous trip for Ferdinand Magellan and his crew. While he believed the Islands to be only 600 nautical miles away from the tip of ...

In a joint operation, the Argentine Navy and Coast Guard are monitoring and keeping track of an estimated 300 Chinese fishing vessels that are sailing from the Pacific to the South Atlantic across the ...