Ferdinand Magellan

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Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who, as Commander of a Spanish fleet, sailed around South America, discovered the Strait of Magellan, and then sailed across the Pacific Ocean. He was killed in the Philippines, but one of his ships accomplishing the first circumnavigation of the Earth.

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