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Ferdinand Magellan
(1480?1521;
Portuguese
:
Fernao de Magalhaes
;
Spaingie
:
Fernando de Magallanes
) wis a
Portuguese
explorer
. He wis born in
Sabrosa
, in northren Portugal, but later obtained
Spaingie
naitionality in order tae serve Keeng
Charles I o Spain
in sairch o a wastward route tae the "
Spice Islands
" (modren
Maluku Islands
in
Indonesie
).
Magellan's expedeetion o 1519?1522 became the first expedeetion tae sail frae the
Atlantic Ocean
intae the
Pacific Ocean
(then named "peaceful sea" bi Magellan; the passage bein made via the
Strait o Magellan
), an the first tae cross the Pacific. It an aa completit the first
circumnavigation
o the
Yird
, awtho Magellan hissel did no complete the entire voyage, bein killed durin the
Battle o Mactan
in the Philippines. (Magellan haed, housomeivver, travelled eastwards tae the
Malay Peninsula
on an earlier voyage, sae he became ane o the first explorers tae cross aw o the
meridians
o the globe.) O the 237 men who set oot on five ships, ae 18 completit the circumnavigation an managed tae return tae Spain in 1522,
[1]
[2]
led bi the Basque navigator
Juan Sebastian Elcano
, who teuk ower command o the expedeetion efter Magellan's daith. Seiventeen ither men arrived later in Spain: twal men captured bi the Portuguese in
Cape Verde
some weeks earlier an atween 1525 an 1527, an five survivors o the
Trinidad
.
Magellan an aa gies his name tae the
Magellanic Penguin
, which he wis the first European tae note,
[3]
an the
Magellanic clouds
, nou kent tae be nearby dwarf galaxies.
