Na današnji dan, 6. septembra 1522., pre tačno 500 godina, u Špansku luku Sanlúcar de Barrameda, uplovio je jedini preostali brod Magelanove ekspedicije oko sveta. To je bio konačni dokaz da je Zemlja okrugla. Od 256 ljudi na pet brodova, ceo put je prešlo i vratilo se živo samo njih 18. Magelan je ubijen na Madagaskaru, a Viktorija je jedini brod koji je završio čitav kružni put oko Zemlje.
Replika broda Viktorija u Japanu
The voyage started with a crew of about 265 men aboard five ships, however only 18 men returned alive on
Victoria, while many others had deserted. Many of the men died of malnutrition. At the beginning of the voyage,
Luis de Mendoza was her captain. On 2 April 1520, after establishing a settlement in
Puerto San Julian in
Patagonia, a fierce mutiny involving three captains broke out but was ultimately quelled.
[5] Antonio Pigafetta's and other reports state that Luis de Mendoza and Gaspar Quesada, captain of
Concepcion, were executed and their remains hung on gallows on the shore.
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Juan de Cartagena, captain of
San Antonio, was
marooned on the coast. According to Pigafetta, after Magellan's death on 27 April 1521, at the
Battle of Mactan, remnants of the fleet tried to retrieve his body without success. Thereafter,
Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese man who had sided with Magellan in facing the mutiny, and
João Serrão were elected leaders of the expedition. On 1 May 1521, they were invited by
Rajah Humabon of
Cebu to a banquet ashore to receive a gift for the king of Spain. At the banquet, most of the crew were killed or poisoned, including Duarte Barbosa and João Serrão, who the natives wanted to exchange for Western weapons, but was left behind by the remaining crew. Pilot João Carvalho, who had survived the trap, then became the captain of
Victoria. In August, near
Borneo he was deposed and
Juan Sebastián Elcano became captain for the remainder of the expedition.
Out of an initial crew of 260 people, only 18 returned to
Seville with the
Victoria. Others had sailed back with the
Santiago, which deserted near the Strait of Magellan. Yet others would return in the following months and years after having been made prisoner by the Portuguese.
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