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The first voyage around the world was led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan set out from Spain in 1519 with five ships and a crew of over 200 men, seeking a western route to the Spice Islands (modern-day Indonesia). He sailed down the east coast of South America and into the Pacific Ocean, where he discovered the Strait of Magellan, the passage that bears his name, and continued on to the Philippines.
Magellan was killed in a battle with the indigenous people of the Philippines in 1521, but one of his ships, the Victoria, managed to make it back to Spain in 1522, completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.