NC State researcher finds El Niño may have been factor in Magellan’s Pacific voyage

NC State researcher finds El Niño may have been factor in Magellan’s Pacific voyage, Science Codex, Feb. 20, 2014. A new paper by NC State archaeologist shows that Ferdinand Magellan’’s historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced by El Niño,– which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, and led him off course. Scott Fitzpatrick,  sociology and anthropology, featured.