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    Who is thought to be the first person to actually have circumnavigated the globe?

    Question #105934. Asked by unclerick. (May 29 09 8:28 AM)


    JMoneyyy

    		Ferdinand Magellan.

    Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan

    -J

    May 29 09, 8:31 AM
    laoi

    		It was Juan Sebastián Elcano.

    Magellan was killed in the Philippines. Elcano finished the voyage that Magellan had started.

    For completing the first world circumnavigation in history and the unprecedented final sailing from Philippines to Spain, Charles I awarded Elcano a coat of arms with the words Primus circumdedisti me (Latin: 'You went around me first') surrounding a world globe, and an annual pension.

    Elcano died while attempting a second voyage to the Spice Islands as sea captain in Loaísa expedition, which eventually led to the second world circumnavigation.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano



    May 29 09, 8:52 AM
    keithkomodo

    		Magellan is given credit for it almost universally because he was the leader of the expedition that first circumnavigated the globe, even though he himself was killed during the trek.

    May 29 09, 8:52 AM
    daBomb619

    		Actually, Magellan was killed in the Philippines, so he never actually completed the circumnavigation. His second-in-command, Juan Sebastián Elcano is credited as the first person to successfully circumnavigate the globe.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebastián_Elcano

    May 29 09, 8:53 AM
    CapainNemo

    		Magellan led the first voyage around the world, but he didn't make it all the way himself. He was killed in the Phillipines.

    237 men were on the voyage, 18 made it back to Spain. They were led by Juan Sebastian Elcano, the navigator who took over after Magellan's death. He is considered the first.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Sebasti%C3%A1n_Elcano

    May 29 09, 8:55 AM
    paper_aero

    		Henry the Black, Magellans slave should also be considered. (Henry = Enrique)
    "Enrique became the first man to circumnavigate the globe (in multiple voyages)"
    http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ferdinand_Magellan

    May 29 09, 11:39 AM
    Baloo55th

    		What about the other 18? Just bit part actors, cannon fodder, GI Joes.... They probably did more of the actual work involved!

    May 29 09, 12:51 PM

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