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Friday 02 May 2008: Magellan was not a circumnavigator
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães in Portuguese) never completed his attempt to circumnavigate the Earth. He was killed in a battle in the Philippines in 1521 after having successfully crossed the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in a westward direction.

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