Juan Sebastián Elcano
✶December 9, 1486
†August 4, 1526
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✶December 9, 1486
†August 4, 1526
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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. He received recognition for his achievement by Charles I of Spain with a coat of arms bearing a globe and the Latin motto Primus circumdedisti me.
Spanish seafarer and circumnavigator
Biography from the article Juan Sebastián Elcano on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.