Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Muna 1519, muongorori wePortugal Ferdinand Magellan akafamba nechikepe muPacific East to West achienda kuSpanish kuSpice Islands iyo yaizoguma nokufamba kwenyika kwokutanga. Magellan akadana gungwa racho kuti Pacífico (kana kuti "Pacific" rinoreva kuti, "rugare") nemhaka yokuti, pashure pokufamba nomumvura dzine dutu pedyo neCape Horn, boka racho rakawana mvura dzakadzikama. Gungwa racho raiwanzonzi Gungwa reMagellan mukukudza kwake kutozosvikira muzana remakore rechigumi nemasere. Kunyange zvazvo Magellan pachake akafira muPhilippines muna 1521, mufambisi wengarava wechiSpanish wechiBasque Juan Sebastián Elcano akatungamirira zvisaririra zvorwendo rwacho kudzokera kuSpain kuyambuka Indian Ocean ndokukomberedza Cape of Good Hope, achipedza rwendo rwokutanga rwokutenderera nyika murwendo rumwe chete muna 1522. Vachifamba nechokumabvazuva kweMoluccas, pakati pa1525 na1527, nzendo dzechiPutukezi dzakawana Caroline Islands, Aru Islands, uye Papua New Guinea. Muna 1542<unk>43 vaPutukezi vakasvikawo kuJapan. Muna 1564, ngarava shanu dzeSpain dzaitakura vatsvakurudzi 379 dzakayambuka gungwa dzichibva kuMexico dzakatungamirirwa naMiguel López de Legazpi, ndokuenda kuPhilippines neMariana Islands. Kwezana remakore rechi16, Spain ndiyo yainyanya kutonga, zvikepe zvaibva kuMexico nePeru zvichipfuura nomuPacific Ocean zvichienda kuPhilippines zvichipfuura neGuam, uye zvichitanga Spanish East Indies. Ngarava dzokuManila dzakashanda kwemazana maviri nemakumi mashanu emakore, dzichibatanidza Manila neAcapulco, mune imwe yenzira dzokutengeserana refu zvikurusa munhau. Zvitsuwa zveSpain zvakawanawo Tuvalu, Marquesas, Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, uye Admiralty Islands muSouth Pacific. Gare gare, mukutsvaka Terra Australis ("Nyika [yakakura] yeSouth"), kuongorora kweSpain muzana remakore rechi17, sekutsvaga kwakatungamirirwa nemufambisi wengarava wechiPutukezi Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, vakawana Pitcairn neVanuatu archipelagos, uye vakafamba muTorres Strait pakati peAustralia neNew Guinea, yakatumidzwa zita remufambisi wengarava Luís Vaz de Torres. Vafundisi vokuNetherlands, vaishanyira kumaodzanyemba kweAfrica, vaiitawo basa rokutsvaka nokuita zvokutengeserana; Willem Janszoon,...  Mubvunzo: Nzendo dzokuSpain dzakasvika kure zvakadini nechomukati menyika muNorthwest?
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