Ferdinand Magellan
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Ferdinand Magellan is a Person that was as a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
- See: Collins English Dictionary, Malay Archipelago, Magelhaens (Martian Crater), International Astronomical Union, Sabrosa, Kingdom of Portugal, Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines, Portuguese People, Circumnavigation.
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2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan Retrieved:2019-5-25.
- Ferdinand Magellan ([1] or ; [2] , ; c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Born into a family of the Portuguese nobility in around 1480, Magellan became a skilled sailor and naval officer and was in service of the Portuguese crown in Asia. After King Manuel I of Portugal refused to support his plan to reach India by a new route, by sailing around the southern end of America, he was eventually selected by King Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku Islands (the "Spice Islands"). Commanding a fleet of five vessels, he headed south through the Atlantic Ocean to Patagonia, passing through the Strait of Magellan into a body of water he named the "peaceful sea" (the modern Pacific Ocean). Despite a series of storms and mutinies, the expedition reached the Spice Islands in 1521 and returned home via the Indian Ocean to complete the first circuit of the globe. Magellan did not complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines in 1521. Magellan had already reached the Malay Archipelago in Southeast Asia on previous voyages traveling east (from 1505 to 1511–1512). By visiting this area again but now travelling west, Magellan achieved a nearly complete personal circumnavigation of the globe for the first time in history. [3] [4] The Magellanic penguin is named after him, as he was the first European to note it. Magellan's navigational skills have also been acknowledged in the naming of objects associated with the stars, including the Magellanic Clouds, now known to be two nearby dwarf galaxies; the twin lunar craters of Magelhaens and Magelhaens A; and the Martian crater of Magelhaens.[5]
- ↑ "Magellan" entry in Collins English Dictionary.
- ↑ "Magellan" entry in Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
- ↑ Gordon Miller, Voyages: To the New World and Beyond, p. 30, University of Washington Press, First American edition, 2011,
- ↑ Circumnavigations of the Globe to 1800, Steve Dutch, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- ↑ From the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, maintained by the USGS, in cooperation with IAU: Magelhaens on Moon, Magelhaens A on Moon, and Magelhaens on Mars. Accessed 2012-08-27.