What are some things Sir Francis Drake found on his trip around the worold?
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What did Drake find out on his voyage around the world?\nDrake's voyage helped to give a more accurate picture of the true geography of the world. During the course of the voyage, Drake discovered that Tierra del Fuego, the land seen to the south of the Magellan Strait, was not part of a southern continent as had been believed previously, but an archipelago, or group of islands. Francis Fletcher, the chaplain on Drake's ship described it like this:\n\nIn passing along we plainly discovered that same Terra Australis to be no continent, but broken islands and large passages amongst them....\n\nThis meant that if the American continent was not connected to a southern continent, the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans met at Cape Horn. It should be possible to sail ships around the bottom of South America, south of Tierra. This was the Cape Horn route, eventually discovered in 1616.
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It came from Captain George Vancouver of the British navy who surveyed the area in the early 1790's. He had earlier been a midshipman on board HMS Endeavour when Captain James Cook sailed up the West Coast of Canada.
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Magellan, Ferdinand (1480?-1521), Portuguese-born Spanish explorer and navigator, leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate, or sail completely around, the world. He was born in northern Portugal.\n\n  \n\nMagellan’s Voyage Portuguese sea captain Ferdinand Magellan and his crew were the first Europeans to sail around the world, proving that the world was round. From 1519 to 1521 Magellan, with five ships and a Spanish crew of about 250 men, searched for a western route to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands. He was killed on April 27, 1521 when he interfered in a dispute between indigenous people in the Philippines. Only two of his ships continued to the Spice Islands. The two ships then made separate return voyages, and only one, commanded by Juan Sebastián del Cano, completed the trip back to Spain.© Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. \nExpand \n \n\nFerdinand Magellan Quick Facts © Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. \nExpand \n \nMagellan set out to reach the East Indies by sailing westward from Europe, which no one was sure could be done. He intended to return by the same route, but after his death his crews found that the prevailing winds required them to keep sailing west, around the world.\n\nII  EARLY LIFE \n\nMagellan was born Fernão de Magalhães to a noble Portuguese family; later the Spanish knew him as Fernando de Magallanes. He served as a court page in his youth, and in 1505 he sailed with a fleet carrying the first Portuguese viceroy to India. He then served with the fleet in the exploration and conquest of the East Indies. Twice wounded in battle, he took part in expeditions that captured the kingdom of Malacca (Melaka) in the Malay Peninsula of southeast Asia. He explored the islands of present-day Indonesia as far east as the Moluccas, or Spice Islands. By 1510 he was promoted to the rank of captain.\n\nIn 1512 Magellan returned to Portugal, and in 1513 he battled the Moors in Morocco. He was wounded again and left with a permanent limp. Soon afterward he lost favor with King Manuel of Portugal, probably because of charges of financial irregularities while he was in Morocco. The king canceled a promotion Magellan had received for his valor against the Moors and later denied his request for a fleet to prove that the Moluccas could be reached by sailing west.\n\nIII  THE PLAN FOR THE VOYAGE \n\n Magellan believed there was a \npassage to the west through or \naround South America. \n\nMagellan renounced his Portuguese citizenship and in 1517 went to Spain to seek support for his plan from King Charles I (later Holy Roman Emperor Charles V). Magellan believed there was a passage to the west through or around South America. Such a passage would be of great value to the Spanish, who wanted a share in the lucrative trade in spices from the Moluccas. Portugal controlled the eastward route to the East Indies, around Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, and would not allow Spanish ships to pass.\n\nMagellan offered an additional argument to the king. The 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal had divided the world between the two powers. The Portuguese hemisphere was east of a north-south line that ran through Brazil. The Spanish half was west of the line. However, the position of the line on the other side of the globe was unknown. Magellan argued that at least some of the Moluccas might lie within the Spanish hemisphere. The only way to be sure was to measure the distance around the earth by sailing west to the Moluccas, since their distance from Spain by the eastern route was known.\n\nIV  START OF THE EXPEDITION \n\nMagellan won the king’s approval for his voyage. A fleet of five vessels was outfitted and sailed from Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, with about 250 men on September 20, 1519. Magellan sailed through familiar waters along the west coast of Africa and then south to the equator. There the fleet turned south-southwest and crossed the Atlantic to a point near Recife in
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Lyme Regis is well known for being good for fossil hunting. Also the Isle of Wight is good.
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I would check both Goblet of Fire and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.  If you don't have FB&WFT, you can find that information on www.mugglenet.com.
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Google with a properly formed query will find most of the information that is out there. Also try wikipedia for information on places which generally includes their history. \n\nWhat place do you wish to find information on and what sort of information do you require?
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Here are some sites that may help you:\n\nhttp://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/english/history/history_pearl.asp\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_hunting\nhttp://www.divingheritage.com/pearldivingkern.htm
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On the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, 1700 feet under the surface, archaeologists found the wreck of the old side-wheel steamship, "Republic."  She sank in a great hurricane in October, 1865, off the coast of Georgia (US - the country of Georgia is landlocked).\n\nNewspaper reports after the ship's loss said that she went down with $400,000 of gold coin, destined for New Orleans.  And one newspaper story suggesed she also carried a separate cargo of $70,000 in coin for someone else in New Orleans.\n\nUsing robotic equipment, the archaeologists excavated the SS Republic.  They found the remnants of two wooden barrels holding gold and silver coins, 59,000 in all.  So far, they have not found the rest of the money said to have been aboard th ship.\n\nThe wreck of the SS Republic presents MANY historical mysteries.  One of the myseries is, who were the people who escaped from her that stormy day?  Some are known and their stories have been found, but most remain just names in newspaper lists of shipwreck survivors.  Another is who were the people who died after the ship sank?  Newspaper accounts suggest one or two people drowned while swimming away from the sinking ship to lifeboats, and either 14 or 16 people died while castaways on a raft that was not found until a week after the sinking.  All of these people today are forgotten, nameless victims; who were they?\n\nOf course, the archaeologists would VERY much like to know where the rest of the money can be found on the wreck.\n\nAnd finally there is THIS mystery:\n\nAt least one and maybe more of the canvas bags of coins in the barrels came from the Bank of New York.  The archaeologists found the lead seals used by the bank to close the bags.  Those bags of coins were silver half-dollars, ALL made in the New Orleans mint in 1861 - some before Louisiana seceded from the Union, some made while Louisiana was an independent state, and others made when the Confederacy ruled.  So the coins in these bags were under Confederate control after they were minted.  Most of the money in New Orleans was dispersed into the Deep South when the Union assaulted, and captured, the city in April of 1862. \n\nHOW DID THEY GET TO NEW YORK DURING THE CIVIL WAR?\n\nHow did these bags of 1861 "O" silver half-dollars end up in a New York bank vault, and then come to be put on the doomed vessel to be shipped back to New Orleans only months after the war had ended?
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A very incomplete list, off my head\n\nAl Tartushi - Arab merchant from Spain who traveled the Baltic Sea around 9th century\n\nOttar of Halogaland - Norwegian merchant who sailed around the North Cape to northern Russia, and south to the court of Alfred of Wessex who had his travelogue written down. 9th century\n\nLeif Eriksson - son of Erik the Red (who had settled Greenland from Iceland) who sailed further west to Markland and Vinland (Ainse au Medaux in Labrador) 11th century\n\nWillem of Roebruk - Minorite monk sent as ambassador to the Ilkhan's court.\n\nNicolo and Maffeo Polo - traveled to China along the Silk Road 13th century. Nicolo's son Marco wrote the famous travelogue.\n\nVasco da Gama.- Portuguese sailor, sailed around the south tip of Africa into the Indic Ocean\n\nChristopher Columbus - sailed across the Atlantic into the Caribbean\n\nMagellan - Portuguese sailor who led the first circumnavigation of the earth, discovered the Magellan strait, died during the journey 16th century\n\nFrancis Drake - second circumnavigation, used the open sea of Kap Hoorn (named after the dutch expeditionary ship which found  the open seas passage further south) 17th century\n\nJames Cook - British sailor and explorer in the Pacific, around 1770\n\nBering - Danish sailor who tried to find the North-West Passage\n\nNansen - Norwegian who designed a ship to sail close to the North Pole\n\nDr Livingstone, Stanley - explorers of the Kongo\n\nFrederic Cooke, Peary - explorers to the North Pole\n\nScott, Amundsen - explorers to the South Pole\n\nErnest Shackleton - another explorer in the Antarctic, led a famous survival expedition after shipwreck in the ice shelf
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http://www.stortford-archers.org.uk/medieval.htm\n\nhas some interesting info on archery at the battle of Agincourt. there is a website set up for UK school kids that might help called past explorers\n\nhttp://www.finds.org.uk/pastexplorers/index.php \n\nthere is a page on the same sight with useful links to sinilar places\n\nhttp://www.finds.org.uk/pastexplorers/links.php
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Sure.  But why would you want to?  A guide could show you neat things off the beaten path that you otherwise might miss.  Good luck.
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You will find it all here   Even his map. \n\nhttp://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/greavesandthomas/facsimile/globe_magellan.htm
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visit http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/france_159/discovering-france_2005/index.html
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any thing can be discovered.
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you can find historical informtion at your local natural history museum or the library.
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http://www.icydays.org/herm/about.html\nhttp://www.easyinsects.co.uk/site/content/view/17/36/\nhttp://www.b-v-i.com/Nature/Ashore/ashore.htm
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It depends on your interests.  From Quito, the things most people do are go to the market at Otavalo and see the Mitad del Mundo monument at the Equator.  There's also a large, pre-Inca archaeological site called Cochasqui.  Cotopaxi and other volcanoes are breathtaking, and there are some trekking companies that can arrange for you to hike several.  The Galapagos are of course a big hit, but are sometimes out of reach of the budget traveler.  Along the coast is the Ruta del Sol, a bunch of villages along the main highway that participate in tourism.  At Puerto Lopez (along the Ruta del Sol) is the Parque Nacional de Machalilla, which features whale watching, bird watching, trips to the near-by Isla de la Plata, a beautiful beach at Los Frailes, and another huge archaeological site called Agua Blanca (the park is sometimes referred to as the poor man's Galapagos).  In Guayaquil itself is the new Malecon boardwalk area with shops, restaurants, and a new museum.  A little further south is Cuenca, which has some beautiful colonial architecture...the city itself is the thing to see.  If you're interested in the Amazon, a lot of people travel by bus from Quito to Tena, and operators there can organize river tours, meeting with shamans, and visiting bio-reserves.  Enjoy your trip!