Crossword clues for magellan
magellan
- 1521 visitor to Guam
- Man who named the Pacific Ocean
- Famous crosser of the 39-Across
- Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain
- He commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)
- Discoverer of the Marianas: 1521
- Explorer and crew taking a set line
- One learned all about northern explorer
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
anglicized name of Portuguese navigator Fernão de Magalhães (c.1470-1521).
Wikipedia
Magellan may refer to:
- Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer who led part of the first expedition around the world
- Strait of Magellan, a geographic location in South America
- Magellan's Cross, a geographic location in the Philippines
- Sea of Magellan, see Pacific Ocean
- Magellan expedition, or the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation, see Timeline of Magellan's circumnavigation
- Order of Magellan, an honor bestowed on distinguished circumnavigators by The Circumnavigators Club (club founded 1902)
- Magellan (band), a progressive rock band
- Magellan (search engine), a forerunner of the Excite web portal
- Lotus Magellan, a file manager software
- Magellan Fund, a mutual fund offered by Fidelity Investments
- Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, a political polling firm that serves Republican Party candidates and organizations
- Magellan class battleship, a fictional class of battleship in the Gundam universe
- MS Magellan (ship, 1985), a cruise ship
- CMA CGM Magellan, a container ship
- Ferdinand Magellan (railcar), a former presidential rail car from 1943 until 1958, currently held by the Gold Coast Railroad Museum.
- Magellan sheep dog, a dog originated in Chile
- Magellan Midstream Partners, American oil pipeline corporation.
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 probe was the first interplanetary mission to be launched from the Space Shuttle, the first one to use the Inertial Upper Stage booster for launching, and the first spacecraft to test aerobraking as a method for circularizing its orbit. Magellan was the fourth successful NASA mission to Venus, and it ended an eleven-year gap in U.S. interplanetary probe launches.
Magellan was a progressive metal/ rock band from California, United States, formed by the two brothers Trent Gardner and Wayne Gardner in 1985. The band has had a number of well-known guest musicians, such as Ian Anderson ( Jethro Tull), Joey Franco ( Twisted Sister, Van Helsing's Curse), and Tony Levin ( King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Liquid Tension Experiment).
In February 2014, Wayne Gardner died by suicide. In June 2016, Trent Gardner died of unknown reasons.
Usage examples of "magellan".
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.