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The 1519-1522 expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate the globe, and thus the first to discover the sea route around Cape Horn, at the tip of South America.

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Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean.

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