Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Tafiya: A shekara ta 1519, Ferdinand Magellan ɗan ƙasar Portugal ya yi tafiya a gabas zuwa yamma a Tekun Fasifik a lokacin da 'yan ƙasar Sifen suke zuwa tsibirin Spice Islands wanda hakan ya sa aka soma zagaya duniya. Magellan ya kira tekun Pacífico (ko "Pacific" ma'ana, "lafiya") domin, bayan da suka yi tafiya cikin teku mai hadari daga Cape Horn, rukunin sun sami ruwa mai natsuwa. Ana kiran teku sau da yawa Tekun Magellan don girmama shi har zuwa ƙarni na goma sha takwas. Ko da yake Magellan kansa ya mutu a Philippines a shekara ta 1521, Juan Sebastián Elcano, mai ba da jirgin ruwa na Basque na Spain, ya jagoranci ragowar tafiyar zuwa Spain a fadin Tekun Indiya da kuma kusa da Cape of Good Hope, ya kammala aikin farko na duniya a cikin tafiya guda a 1522. A tsakanin shekara ta 1525 zuwa 1527, wasu 'yan ƙasar Portugal sun je tsibiran Moluccas kuma suka gano tsibiran Caroline da Aru da kuma Papua New Guinea. A cikin 1542 <unk> 43 Portuguese ma sun isa Japan.A cikin 1564, jiragen ruwa na Spain guda biyar da ke dauke da masu bincike 379 sun haye teku daga Mexico wanda Miguel López de Legazpi ya jagoranci, kuma suka tashi zuwa Philippines da tsibirin Mariana. A cikin sauran ƙarni na 16, tasirin Mutanen Espanya ya kasance mafi mahimmanci, tare da jiragen ruwa da ke tashi daga Mexico da Peru a fadin Tekun Pacific zuwa Philippines ta hanyar Guam, da kuma kafa Gabashin Indiyawan Mutanen Espanya. Jiragen ruwan Manila sun yi aiki na ƙarnuka biyu da rabi, suna haɗa Manila da Acapulco, a ɗaya daga cikin hanyoyin kasuwanci mafi tsawo a tarihi. Masu binciken Mutanen Espanya sun kuma gano Tuvalu, Marquesas, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, da Admiralty Islands a Kudancin Pacific. Daga baya, a cikin neman Terra Australis ("Babban Kudancin Kudancin"), binciken Mutanen Espanya a karni na 17, irin su balaguron da Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós ya jagoranci, ya gano tsibirin Pitcairn da Vanuatu, kuma ya yi tafiya a cikin Torres Strait tsakanin Australia da New Guinea, wanda aka kira shi bayan mai binciken Luís Vaz de Torres. Masu binciken Dutch, suna zagayawa a kudancin Afirka, suma suna cikin bincike da kasuwanci; Willem Janszoon,...  Tambaya: Yaya nisan da 'yan leƙen asirin Spain suka kai a arewa maso yamma?
Tsibirin Vancouver a Kudancin Kanada, da Alaska