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Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer who is credited with masterminding the first expedition to circumnavigate the world.

navigator Ferdinand Magellan

Not really— the explorer and his voyage are a study in contradiction. Magellan was Portuguese, but sailed on behalf of Spain. He was a formidable captain, but his crew hated him. His expedition was the first to sail around the world, but he didn’t end up circling the globe himself.

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He became the first European to sail the Pacific Ocean, and the first to sail around the world. Magellan’s voyage proved that the Earth was round. Born in 1480, his birthplace is recorded as either Sabrosa or Porto in Portugal.

Magellan called the ocean Pacífico (or “Pacific” meaning, “peaceful”) because, after sailing through the stormy seas off Cape Horn, the expedition found calm waters. The ocean was often called the Sea of Magellan in his honor until the eighteenth century.

The China Seas consist of a series of marginal seas in the Western Pacific Ocean, around China. They are the major components signifying the transition from the continent of Asia to the Pacific Ocean.

Explorer Ferdinand Magellan

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of the world ocean basins. Covering approximately 63 million square miles and containing more than half of the free water on Earth, the Pacific is by far the largest of the world’s ocean basins.

The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the Earth’s surface and has no outlet. Nearly 7 mn tonnes of water evaporate from it daily. The Dead Sea is the lowest point on the Earth’s surface and has no outlet. If the Dead Sea is 3 mn years old, then the Red Sea dates back to some 25 mn years.

Pacific Ocean

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There is only one global ocean. Historically, there are four named oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic. However, most countries – including the United States – now recognize the Southern (Antarctic) as the fifth ocean. The Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian are the most commonly known.

Mariners then referred to the Seven Seas as the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Indian, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico.