Has anyone sailed around the world since Columbus?
Actually Columbus DID NOT sail around the world… The closest he got was The Island of Hispaniola…in the Caribean. The first person who sailed around the world was Juan Sebastián Elcano… Juan Sebastián Elcano (born in Getaria (in the Basque province Guipuscoa, Kingdom of Castile, now Spain), 1486 or 1487 – Pacific Ocean, August 4, 1526) was a Basque (Spanish) navigator. He completed the first world circumnavigation in history. Elcano was a naval commander subject of Charles I of Castile and he completed the voyage that the Portuguese-born (and trained) naval commander and navigator Ferdinand Magellan inspired, planned, organized and led for Castile to reach the Spice Islands sailing westwards from Europe. Taking command when Magellan died. He brought one of Magellan’s ships, the Victoria, back to Seville with eighteen surviving men, on September 8, 1522, after a journey of three years and one month. Since then many navigators have sailed around the world. The following have done i
