- Born
- November 30, 1476
- Died
- August 4, 1526 (aged 49)
- Known as
- explorer, seafarer
Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the Spice Islands.
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