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• n  Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

• Magellan
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Fernao Magalhaes

News & Articles

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• ESO's VLT Captures Unlikely Pair In Large Magellanic Cloud
  [ Watch the Video: ESO Captures Pair of Mysterious Glowing Gas Clouds ] Brett Smith for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A newly released image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has exposed new details about the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galactic neighbor of the Milky Way. The LMC was discovered by its namesake, Ferdinand Magellan , when the explorer's ...
  Aug. 8, 2013 - redOrbit