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The Spanish expedition of the Portuguese explorer Magellan was the first to cross the Pacific in 1521 and the one to give the ocean its name. After discovering and crossing the Strait of Magellan in November 1520, the expedition sailed northwest across the Pacific for over three months and reached the Philippines in March 1521.
In 1529, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón also tried sailing east from the Philippines, but could not find "westerlies" across the Pacific. In 1543, Bernardo de la Torre also failed. In 1542, however, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo helped pave the way by sailing north from Mexico to explore the Pacific coast, reaching just north of the 38th parallel at the ...
From then until 1815 the annual Manila Galleons crossed the Pacific from Mexico to the Philippines and back, exchanging Mexican silver for spices and porcelain. Until the time of Captain James Cook these were the only large ships to regularly cross the Pacific. The route was purely commercial and there was no exploration of the areas to the ...
The Bataan–Cavite Interlink Bridge, also known as the Manila Bay Bridge is a planned bridge which will cross Manila Bay and connect the provinces of Bataan and Cavite in the Philippines. Construction is expected to begin in 2025.
The South Pacific air ferry route was initially established in the 1920s to ferry United States Army Air Service aircraft to the Philippines.As the Japanese threat in the Far East increased in 1940, General Douglas MacArthur planned that in the event of war, the United States Army Air Corps would play a major role in defending the Philippines.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Chinese aircraft carrier the Shandong passed close to the northern Philippines on its way to drills in the Pacific, Taiwan's defence minister said on Wednesday, as Taipei ...
Samar Pacific Coastal Road Project (SPCR) 2018–2023 Completed July 14, 2023 [8] [9] [10] Sindangan-Bayog-Lakewood Road, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga del Norte Proposed Surallah-T’Boli-San Jose Road, South Cotabato Completed Expressways C-5 Southlink Expressway: Under-construction Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX) 2015 Under-construction
Converge Vision, marketed as Vision (in uppercase), is a digital Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service provider in the Philippines. Launched in 2021, Vision is owned by Pacific Kabelnet Holdings and co-partners with affiliate Converge ICT. It is also available in key provinces marketed as Converge FiberTV.