Circumnavigation traveling west from Europe, in 1521, Magellan reached a region of Southeast Asia (in the Malay Archipelago), which he had reached on previous voyages traveling east. Magellan thereby achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history. In 1577, Elizabeth I sent Francis Drake to start an expedition against the Spanish along the Pacific coast of the Americas. Drake set out from Plymouth, England in November 1577, aboard "Pelican", which Drake renamed "Golden Hind" mid-voyage. In September 1578, he passed through the southern tip of South America, named Drake Passage, which connects the southwestern
Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet Sir Francis Drake, 3rd Baronet (1642–1718) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1673 and 1700. Drake was the son of Thomas Drake and his wife Susan Crimes, daughter of William Crimes, of Buckland Crimes and was baptised on 1 May 1642, at Buckland. His father, who was son of Sir Francis Drake, 1st Baronet, was a major of horse in the Parliamentary army. Drake succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his uncle Sir Francis Drake, 2nd Baronet on 6 June 1661. He matriculated at