https://chartedvoyages.com/ An illustrated historical atlas of the great voyages. Follow Magellan's circumnavigation, Columbus, Odysseus, Marco Polo and Darwin aboard the Beagle across an antique interactive globe, with dated logbook entries, primary sources and animated routes. en-GB Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/magellan-expedition/ https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/magellan-expedition/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Five ships left Sanlúcar to reach the Spice Islands by sailing west. One returned, three years later, having gone round the world. Route certainty and sources last reviewed 2026-07-28. https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/christopher-columbus-first-voyage/ https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/christopher-columbus-first-voyage/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Three ships west from Palos on a miscalculation about the size of the Earth, and a landfall Europe would spend a generation failing to understand. Route certainty and sources last reviewed 2026-07-28. https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/odysseus-odyssey/ https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/odysseus-odyssey/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ten years of homeward sailing that never quite happens. A literary voyage, charted as antiquity and the Renaissance imagined it — not as history. Route certainty and sources last reviewed 2026-07-28. https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/marco-polo/ https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/marco-polo/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Twenty-four years overland and by sea, dictated afterwards in a Genoese prison, and doubted ever since. Route certainty and sources last reviewed 2026-07-28. https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/darwin-voyage-of-the-beagle/ https://chartedvoyages.com/journeys/darwin-voyage-of-the-beagle/ Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT An Admiralty survey commission around South America with a young gentleman naturalist aboard, and five years of notes that changed biology. Route certainty and sources last reviewed 2026-07-28.