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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese sea captain. He was the commander of the expedition that became the first to sail around the world. He first went to sea in 1505. He was interested in the way that Columbus sailed and studied Columbuss maps of his ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/4034/magellan2.html
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- A Voyage Round
Ferdinand de Magellan was born about 1470 of noble parents, and probably spent his boyhood as a page of the Queen of Portugal. As a young man he was in the East India service, then in Morocco. After a slight from King Manuel, he enlisted under the Sp ...
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1519magellan.html
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- A First Circumnavigation
First Circumnavigation of the Globe, begun in 1519, was an attempt to prove that the coveted Spice Islands, or Moluccas, were actually property of Spain. Finding a direct route between the Spice Islands and Spanish Peru would be argument enough for o ...
http://www.thenagain.info/WebChron//WestEurope/Magellan.html
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- The Magellan Ferdinand
Ferdinand Magellan 1480?1521, Portugueseborn Spanish explorer and navigator, leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate, or sail completely around, the world. He was born in northern Portugal. Magellan set out to reach the East Indies by sailin ...
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761570410/Magellan.html
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- A Greatest Voyager
The Biographical and historical essay by Raymond Schuessler. ...
http://www.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/art/SCHUES01.ART
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The National Maritime Museum comprises three sites: the Maritime Galleries, the Royal Observatory and the Queens House. Together these constitute one museum working to illustrate for everyone the importance of the sea, ships, time and the stars and t ...
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/magellan
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