On August 10, 1519, five ships [Trinidad (major ship), San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria, and Santiago] under Magellan's command left Seville and travelled from the Guadalquivir River to Sanlucar de Barrameda at the mouth of the rivers, where they remained more than five weeks.

The Guadalquivir River is the only great navigable river in Spain. Currently it is navigable up as far as Seville.

This was probably the equivalent of blasting off for the 1969 Moon Landing; a venture into the unknown.

He discovered a passage around the bottom part of the Americas that crossed into the "other" side of the known world at that time.

Jackatsea sailed 'round the horn in probably the biggest, most safe and luxurious cruise liner in the world (today). Believe me, the weather is, changeable.

The skill and courage of those sailors from ages past beggars belief.

Magellan didn't make it. Magellan was killed in the Battle of Mactan against Philippine natives on April 27, 1521.

Apparently, he was slain by a mob of natives wielding bamboo spears and big knives while he was performing a rearguard action that ultimately allowed his crew to escape back to their ships and continue the voyage.

Some history books continue to record Magellan as the first person to sail around the world. However, on September 6, 1522, Juan Sebastián Elcano (captain) and the remaining crew of Magellan's voyage and the last ship of the fleet, Victoria, arrived in Spain, almost exactly three years after leaving.

So, the CREW of the Victoria should really be credited with the first circumnavigation the globe.

I hope this answers your question.

Addons...

NASA named a space probe in honour of the spirit of exploration that Magellan showed 488 years ago.

The Magellan spacecraft was a space probe sent to the planet Venus, the first post-Voyager unmanned spacecraft to be launched by NASA since its successful Voyager 1 spacecraft to Jupiter and Saturn in 1977. It was also the first of three deep-space probes to be launched on the Space Shuttle (the others being the Ulysses Sun probe and the Galileo spacecraft to Jupiter) until the launching of the failed Mars Observer spacecraft on a Titan III rocket in 1992.

After doing this research, I've got a feeling that Magellan would have "been proud" to have his name associated with deep-space exploration.

Jackatsea actually touched the foot of the Magellan statue: