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Homonhon Island is an
island in the
province of
Eastern Samar, Philippines, on the east side of
Leyte Gulf. The 20-kilometre (12 mi) long
island is part...
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March 17, 1521, they
landed on "uninhabited island" or
known as "Humunu" (
Homonhon)
which Pigafetta referred to as "Watering
place of good signs" because...
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Ferdinand Magellan's 16th
century expedition first landed on the
island of
Homonhon,
which lies
within the muni****lity,
after their Pacific crossing. The...
- Magellan's
expedition which anc****d on the
nearby (then uninhabited)
island of
Homonhon on
March 16, 1521. On
March 16, 1521,
after 98 days of
crossing the Pacific...
- cir****navigation of the globe,
Ferdinand Magellan had set foot on the tiny
island of
Homonhon in the
southern part of the province. On
March 16, 1521, the area of what...
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anchor at
Suluan Island, and then finally, on 17
March 1521, he
landed on
Homonhon Island.
Later in the 1700s,
Samar was
recorded to have
about 103 Spanish...
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fleet first sighted the
island of Samar, then
landed on the
island of
Homonhon,
which was then uninhabited. They
encountered friendly locals from the...
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Philippines in the year 1521.
March 16 –
Ferdinand Magellan reaches the
Homonhon, Philippines.
March 28 –
Ferdinand Magellan and his men anc****d off the...
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following day,
Magellan ordered his men to
anchor their ships on the s****s of
Homonhon Island. There,
Magellan befriended Rajah Kolambu and
Rajah Siagu, king...
- Islands. They
weighed anchor in the
small (then uninhabited)
island of
Homonhon ("Humunu"),
where they
would remain for a w****
while their sick crew members...
