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He planned to sail down the eastern coast of South America to see if he could find a passage to a western ocean that would allow him to reach Asia.
His 38-day voyage in the storms of the channel, now called the Strait of Magellan — at South America's southern tip — led him to what he named the Pacific, for its calm.
"It was the single greatest feat in the history of maritime exploration," Vejas Liulevicius, author of the Great Courses' audiovisual program "History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration," told IBD. "Only one of the vessels returned to Spain three years later and 70% of the crew died, including Magellan, but it's a miracle anyone survived.
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