Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan

male, deceased (1521)
cebu, Cebu Province, circumnavigation, straitofmagellan, mactan island, Spice Islands…Explorer of the Pacific, Battle of Mactan, Age of Discovery
Ferdinand Magellan ; Spring 1480-April 27, 1521, Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines) was a Portuguese-born maritime explorer who, at the service of...
Pedro de Mendoza

Pedro de Mendoza

male, deceased (1537)
spanish conquistador, spanish, Adelantado, Emperor Charles V, Spanish conquistadore, Asunción…straitofmagellan
Pedro de Mendoza, was a Spanish conquistador, and the first adelantado of the Río de la Plata. Mendoza was from a noble family, high in the favor o...
Samuel Wallis

Samuel Wallis

male, deceased (1795)
Explorer of the Pacific, jakarta, batavia, dysentery, From Cornwall, Cape of Good Hope…straitofmagellan
Samuel Wallis (April 1728 - January 21, 1795) was a Cornish navigator who circumnavigated the world. Wallis was born near Camelford, Cornwall. In...
Philip Carteret

Philip Carteret

male, deceased (1796)
Explorer of the Pacific, Carteret family, Royal Navy, From jersey, jersey, explorer…straitofmagellan
Captain Philip Carteret RN (January 22, 1733 – July 21, 1796). Born in Jersey, he was a British naval officer and explorer who participated in th...
Duarte Barbosa

Duarte Barbosa

male, deceased (1521)
San Antonio, writer, brunei, Santiago, 16th century, 15th century…straitofmagellan, Battle of Mactan, Sultanate of Malacca
Duarte Barbosa (d. 1521) was a Portuguese writer and trader. Living in the 15th and the 16th century, his father was Diogo Barbosa. He travelled as...
Philip Parker King

Philip Parker King

male, deceased (1856)
Explorer of Australia, FRS, Royal Navy, cutter, beagle, HMS Beagle…Bass Strait, Fellow of the Royal Society, Explorer of Western Australia, straitofmagellan
Admiral Phillip Parker King, FRS, RN (13 December 1793-1856) was an early explorer of the Australian coast. He was born on Norfolk Island, to...

Francisco de Hoces

male, deceased (1526)
oceania, spanish conquistador, Explorer of the Pacific, spanish, pacific, Sailor…straitofmagellan, Explorer of South America
Francisco de Hoces was a Spanish sailor who in 1525 joined the Loaísa Expedition to the Spice Islands as commander of the vessel "San Lesmes". On J...
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano

Dionisio Alcalá Galiano

male, deceased (1805)
Cabra, Spain, fraser river, spanish conquistador, mexicana, straitofmagellan, Colonial Mexico…battle of trafalgar, Order of Alcántara, Juan Vicente de Güemes, Count of Revillagigedo, Strait of Georgia
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano (1760, Cabra, Córdoba, Spain - October 21, 1805) was a Spanish naval officer, cartographer and explorer. Alcalá Galiano ent...
Philibert Commerçon

Philibert Commerçon

male, deceased (1773)
Botanist, Explorer of the Pacific, circumnavigation, French, Naturalist, madagascar…straitofmagellan
Dr. Philibert Commerçon (also sometimes spelled Commerson was a French naturalist, best known for accompanying Louis Antoine de Bougainville on h...

Matias Cousiño

male, deceased (1863)
billionaire, coal, straitofmagellan, magnate, Spanish-Chilean, Matías Cousiño Jorquera
Matías Cousiño Jorquera was a Chilean coal magnate and patriarch of the wealthy Cousiño family. Cousiño's most emblematic coal mine lied in Lota...