What was the role played by

Elcano and Pigafetta to

Magellans voyage?
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Juan Sebastián de Elcano
• Juan Sebastián de Elcano was the navigator whose
expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the
globe.
• He had been born in the Basque town of Guetaria in 1476
and died of scurvy in the Pacific Ocean in 1526.
• Having participated in Cardinal Cisneros' campaign that
resulted in the conquest of Oran, he took up residence in
Seville, where in 1519 he joined the expedition being
organized by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand
Magellan.
• Equipped with five ships, it aimed to sail west and find a
route around southern America to reach the Spice Islands.
• The fleet discovered what is now the Strait of Magellan
and, enduring much hardship, was the first to cross the
Pacific Ocean.
• Magellan was killed in the Philippines in an attack on a
native settlement and Elcano took over command of the
last remaining ship, the Victoria.
• Reaching the Moluccas in late 1521, he sailed across the
Indian Ocean and finally reached the Atlantic.
• After almost three years and having covered a distance of
14,000 leagues, the ship reached Sanlúcar de Barrameda on
September 6th, 1522, and Seville two days later.
• The Spanish navigator thus completed the first historically
documented circumnavigation of the globe, effectively the
first 'globalization'.
• Emperor Charles V received the survivors at Valladolid,
rewarding Elcano with an annuity of 500 gold ducats and
granting him a crest depicting a globe with the motto Primus
circumdedisti me ('You were the first to circumnavigate me').
Antonio Pigafetta
• Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer.
• He joined the expedition to the Spice Islands led by
explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of the emperor
Charles V and after Magellan died in the Philippine
Islands, the subsequent voyage around the world.
• During the expedition, he served as Magellan's assistant
and kept an accurate journal, which later assisted him in
translating the Cebuano language.
• It is the first recorded document concerning the language.
• Pigafetta was one of the 18 men who made the complete
trip, returning to Spain in 1522, under the command of
Juan Sebastián Elcano, out of the approximately 240 who
set out three years earlier.
• These men completed the first circumnavigation of the
world.
• Pigafetta's surviving journal is the source for much of
what is known about Magellan and Elcano's voyage.
• At least one warship of the Italian Navy, a destroyer of
the Navigator class, was named after him in 1931.
Reference:
• https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/en/about-elcano/the-institute/
juan-sebastian-de-elcano/
• https://www.studocu.com/en-us/document/harvard-university
/human-resource-management/document-27-research/24161699/
• Juan Sebastián de Elcano - Real Instituto Elcano
• Antonio Pigafetta — Google Arts & Culture