Cavendish's circumnavigation of the earth

Thomas Cavendish, in reaching the Patagonian coast of South America, here discovers Port Desire, now Puerto Deseado, Argentina; this is his only significant contribution to geographical knowledge.

English explorer and privateer Thomas Cavendish had passed through the Strait of Magellan and is attacking Spanish settlements and shipping from South America to Mexico.

Among his prizes is the treasure galleon Santa Ana, seized off the coast of California on November 14, 1587.

Thomas Cavendish, an English navigator and freebooter, had accompanied Grenville in 1585 on his voyage to America.

Upon returning to England, Cavendish undertakes an elaborate imitation of Drake's circumnavigation.

He sails from Plymouth on July 21, 1586, with one hundred and twenty-three men in three vessels.