<P> This is a list of circumnavigations of the planet Earth . Sections are ordered by ascending date of completion of voyage . </P> <Ul> <Li> The 18 survivors, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, of Ferdinand Magellan's Castilian (' Spanish') expedition (which began with 5 ships and 270 men); 1519--1522; westward from Spain; in Victoria . After Magellan was killed by people of the Philippines Lapu - Lapu on 27 April 1521, the circumnavigation was completed under the command of the Basque Spanish seafarer Juan Sebastián Elcano who returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, on 6 September 1522, after a journey of 3 years and 1 month . These men were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a single expedition . </Li> <Li> The survivors of García Jofre de Loaísa's Spanish expedition 1525--1536 including Andrés de Urdaneta; westward from Spain . None of Loaísa's seven ships completed the voyage, but Santa María de la Victoria reached the Moluccas before being wrecked in a Portuguese attack . Successive chiefs of the expedition (Loaísa, Elcano, Salazar, Iñiguez, De la Torre) died during the voyages . Andrés de Urdaneta and other fellow men survived, reaching the Spice Islands in 1526, to be taken prisoner by the Portuguese . Urdaneta and a few of his men returned to Spain in 1536 aboard Portuguese ships via India, the Cape of Good Hope and Portugal, and completed the second world circumnavigation in history . </Li> <Li> Francis Drake; 1577--1580; westward from England; in Golden Hind; discovered the Drake Passage but entered the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan; first English circumnavigation and the second carried out in a single expedition . Drake was the first to complete a circumnavigation as captain while leading the expedition throughout the entire circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> Martín Ignacio de Loyola; 1580--1584; westward from Spain . </Li> <Li> Thomas Cavendish; 1586--1588; westward from England; in Desire . </Li> <Li> Martín Ignacio de Loyola; 1585--1589; eastward from Spain (via Macau, China, and Acapulco, Mexico); First person to circumnavigate the world twice, first one to circumnavigate eastwards and both westwards and eastwards (1580--1584 westward and 1585--1589 eastward), and first to use overland routes in his circumnavigation . </Li> <Li> João da Gama; 1584 (or 1585)--1590; eastward from Portugal; from Lisbon to India, Malacca, Macau (China) and Japan . Gama crossed the Pacific at a higher northern latitude; was taken prisoner in Mexico and carried in Spanish ships to the Iberian Peninsula . One of the first to do eastwards, mostly by sea . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The 18 survivors, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, of Ferdinand Magellan's Castilian (' Spanish') expedition (which began with 5 ships and 270 men); 1519--1522; westward from Spain; in Victoria . After Magellan was killed by people of the Philippines Lapu - Lapu on 27 April 1521, the circumnavigation was completed under the command of the Basque Spanish seafarer Juan Sebastián Elcano who returned to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain, on 6 September 1522, after a journey of 3 years and 1 month . These men were the first to circumnavigate the globe in a single expedition . </Li> <Li> The survivors of García Jofre de Loaísa's Spanish expedition 1525--1536 including Andrés de Urdaneta; westward from Spain . None of Loaísa's seven ships completed the voyage, but Santa María de la Victoria reached the Moluccas before being wrecked in a Portuguese attack . Successive chiefs of the expedition (Loaísa, Elcano, Salazar, Iñiguez, De la Torre) died during the voyages . Andrés de Urdaneta and other fellow men survived, reaching the Spice Islands in 1526, to be taken prisoner by the Portuguese . Urdaneta and a few of his men returned to Spain in 1536 aboard Portuguese ships via India, the Cape of Good Hope and Portugal, and completed the second world circumnavigation in history . </Li>

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