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Explorer who named the Pacific Ocean
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The Magellan spacecraft, also referred to as the Venus Radar Mapper , was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on May 4, 1989, to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field . The Magellan ...
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anglicized name of Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (c.1470-1521).
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We are inclined to think that it is a reference to the voyage of Magellan, coupled with an erroneous rendering of the date in the account of Maximilianus Transylvanus: Soluit itaque Magellanus die decimo Augusti, Anno, M.
South Sea, as Balboa named it, the Pacific Ocean, as Magellan soon after called it.
Magellan at once sailed in with his whole fleet, and, seeing several bays in various directions, directed three of the ships to cruise about to ascertain whether there was any way through, undertaking to wait for them five days at the entrance of the strait, so that they might report what success they had.
The family stayed independent, selling information when our funds ran low, reinvesting in data from freelance expeditions to the Horsehead and Lesser Magellan.
We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits of Magellan opened less than seven hundred miles to the south.
With that master mariner he passed the Straits of Magellan, saw the sack of Valparaiso, reached the far Pelew Islands, and Mindanao, and came home round the perilous Cape of Storms, bronzed of face, and hard of muscle, and rich beyond the dreams of man.
We have however representations on maps of the pathways traversed by Abreu and Magellan, combined with other data, which go far to show that, since these regions were charted before the arrival of those hitherto accepted pioneers, they must have been known.
Exports from Central and South America were sent to Europe by way of the Strait of Magellan, and little or none went through the passes between the Bahamas and the Caribbees.
He likens the situation to when explorers like Cook or Magellan encountered remote peoples for the first time.
Though Magellan called the natives Patagonians, the Fuegians called them Tiremenen, the Chilians Caucalhues, the colonists of Carmen Tehuelches, the Araucans Huiliches.
This one used to be in the lobby of the home offices of Magellan in Seattle," MacDonald told him.
He double-checks the Magellan Satnav direction finder and confirms they are bang on their coordinates.
It was called a Global Positioning System, or SATNAV, or Magellan.
Magellan has over a thousand megabooks aboard, in the General Access bank.
He had learned all he could about Earth’s eminent explorers—Leif Eriksson, Ferdinand Magellan, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Neil Armstrong, Jonathan Archer, and so many others—and dreamed about the days when he would join their ranks.