Ferdinand Magellan
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Ferdinand Magellan was an explorer who led an expedition that circumnavigated the planet Earth. (PROSE: Ghost Ship)
In 1999, the Fifth Doctor stated that he felt like Ferdinand Magellan on a voyage of discovery. (PROSE: The King of Terror)
In 2595, Bernice Summerfield reflected that, five hundred years before the first American space probes had reached Mars, Magellan had not yet set foot aboard a ship. (PROSE: Beige Planet Mars)