Elcano returns completing the first circumnavigation

Timeline

1. 1521–1522Indian Ocean to the southern tip of Africa · Indian OceanAfter Magellan's death, Elcano and Captain Carvalho commanded the Victoria, loaded with cloves and other spices, rounding the southern tip of Java, crossing the Indian Ocean, rounding the Cape of Good Hope into the Atlantic, with the hull leaking badly and the crew starving and sick.
2. 1522Sanlúcar de Barrameda to Seville · AndalusiaThe Victoria sailed into the Guadalquivir estuary at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, where the eighteen survivors disembarked. Two days later the fleet reached Seville, presenting spices and the log to Charles V and declaring the first circumnavigation—nearly three years and over forty thousand kilometers—successfully completed.