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    Default First Circumnavigation of the world

    On this day in in 1522, Ferdinand Magellan returned to Spain after the first successful circumnavigation of the world.
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    The intriguing thing is that experts(Whoever they may be )with be putting forward hypotheses, no matter how far fetched, because no one actually knows if anyone did it before him.

    John Albert Evans

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    Quote Originally Posted by John Albert Evans View Post
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    The intriguing thing is that experts(Whoever they may be )with be putting forward hypotheses, no matter how far fetched, because no one actually knows if anyone did it before him.

    John Albert Evans
    ##read an article a few years ago a womans skull was found in a old dried up river bed in oz ...she was white heritage and the bones were ..put at the late 1400s to earlty 1500s...cappy

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    I watches a TV Doco several years ago on this very subject and the verdict was that there is a strong possibility that " White Skinned People " did founder on that part of the West Oz coast about that time and that the local native people are slightly less dark than other tribes. Cheers Peter in NZ.

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    Cappy it may wel be that the white woman you speak of may haver been a long lost relative of mary.

    But the fact is no one can be certain thta all we hear is gospel.
    Back in those days very few could read or write so it was left to a few who may well have written what they thoght they saw or what occurred.

    There have been a number of finds here in Oz which suggest that either the Dutch or Spanish may well have been here long before Cook.
    He came to find what was known as the great southern land, but then if that was the case someone must have been close to be able to give the information that such a region existed.
    Happy daze John in Oz.

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    Hi shipmates, nice of you to point out my ancestry, we were on many famous ships , but I think we may not have been the first, the chinese /roman/ greeks/ and the arabs/ vikings and a few others have a claim ? but it was before my time at sea.

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    Circumnavigated the world on the British Might in 1950. Took us almost a year getting charters to keep going since Iran had nationalised the oil source. Cheers, Eric

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    I thought circumnavigation was what the jewish kids got when little? jp

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    Hi John.
    I have a book by Gavin Menzies {Royal Navy Submarine Commanding officer retired} who was born in 1937 in China. His book !421 The year China Discovered the World is such a fascinating book, but unfortunately the print is so small I have only read about two paragraphs

    In 1421 a massive Chinese fleet was sent out to discover the world. They went down to Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, were the first to colonize America and South America, led an expedition to the North Pole, plus most countries with sea around them. The ancient maps he has discovered are amazing for their time.
    Cheers Des

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