Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521)

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> left Spain in 1519 with five ships to cross the Atlantic and rounded the tip of South America in 1520
> Crossed the Pacific with three ships in 1520-21 and was killed in the Philippines in 1521
> Victoria, continued around Africa and across the Indian Ocean to return home in 1522 completing the first circumnavigation of the globe
> Credited with determining the length of a degree of latitude and calculating the circumference of Earth

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