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Earth was simply too large to sail around the other way. Yet ... 27 years after Columbus' first voyage, the Magellan expedition started it's circumnavigation s
by tosseraccount 10y ago
Earth was simply too large to sail around the other way.
Yet ... 27 years after Columbus' first voyage, the Magellan expedition started it's circumnavigation sailing west proving it was possible.
There are plenty of islands in the Ocean to load up on food and water. Magellen, in fact, stopped at several islands.
- ubernostrum 10y agoIt was too large for the ships Columbus took, provisioned as Columbus provisioned them. And everyone who ridiculed him knew that. Magellan went out with a larger fleet and two years' provisions laid in.
- tosseraccount 10y ago2 years' provisions Magellan Voyage took 3 years.
- xlm1717 10y agoHey may have left with 2 years' provisions, but as you said, he stopped at many islands along the way to restock his provisions.
- ubernostrum 10y agoAlso it's a good thing he set out with the fleet he did, becaue only one of the ships, and a handful of the original crew, made it back.
- felipeerias 10y agoColumbus' plan was equivalent to crossing the Atlantic and then the Pacific, with nothing in between. That is a 24,000 km trip in a straight line (from Spain to the Moluccas, the Spice Islands) for which he was absolutely unprepared.
- huxley 10y agoIt's important to remember that the voyages weren't attempts to prove scientific theories, the Spanish wanted to establish new trade routes.