The isle of Gatighan was a way station of the Armada de Molucca under Captain-General Ferdinand Magellan on their way to Cebu in Central Philippines.
[citation needed] The logbook states[citation needed] that the fleet left the west port of Mazaua early morning of Thursday, April 4, 1521.
The ships sailed 80 nautical miles (150 km) to reach Gatighan at 10° N in 11–13 hours.
Of which we killed a single one, because it was late, which we ate, and it had the taste of a fowl.
There are also in that island pigeons, doves, turtledoves, parrots, and certain black birds as large as a fowl, with a long tail.
They lay eggs as large as those of a goose, which they bury a good cubit deep under the sand in the sun, and so they are hatched by the great heat made by the warm sand.
It is almost exactly at the 10° N latitude, reference point of Albo for Gatighan.
Despite many attempts to determine which island was referred to as Gatighan, opinions still vary on the issue.
Theories include: Carlo Amoretti, the Augustinian encyclopedist, was director of a library in Milan.
Amoretti transcribed it and published his edition, complete with notes, in 1800.
In one of his notes he said Pigafetta's Mazaua may be Bellin's Limasawa, unaware that Limasawa/Dimasawa was in fact a complete negation of what Amoretti is asserting.
[clarification needed] Amoretti states that Limasawa and Mazaua are in the same latitude.
It has been since determined that Limasawa is in 9° 56' N[citation needed], whereas three different latitudes (Pigafetta's 9° 40' N, Albo's 9° 20' N, and the Genoese Pilot's 9° N) have been claimed for the location of Mazaua.
In: The Pacific Basin, A History of Its Geographical Explorations.
Retrieved February 27, 2007, from MagellansPortMazaua mailing list: [1][dead link]--[2] Denuce, Jean.
In: Collecção de noticias para a historia e geografia das nações ultramarinas, que vivem nos dominios Portuguezes, ou lhes sao visinhas.
The Life of Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe: 1480-1521.
Historia general de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas y tierrafirme del mar oceano, t. VI.
The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages 1492-1616.
Geografia historica de las islas Philippinas...t. VIII.
Primo viaggio intorno al globo terracqueo, ossia ragguaglio della navigazione...fatta dal cavaliere Antonio Pigafetta...ora publicato per la prima volta, tratto da un codice MS. Della biblioteca Ambrosiana di Milano e corredato di note da Carlo Amoretti.
Il primo viaggio intorno al globo di Antonio Pigafetta.
In: Raccolta di Documenti e Studi Publicati dalla.
Le premier tour du monde de Magellan.
La Detta navigatione per messer Antonio Pigafetta Vecentino.
In: Delle navigationi e viaggi... Venice: pp.