Basque navigator who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth.
In 1519 he sailed as master of the Conception one of five vessels in Magellans´s fleet.
On Magellan´s death which occurred in the Philippines in April 1521, Elcano took command of the expedition and broght if safely home to Spain despie scurvy, starvation and harassment by the Portuguese.
Only one ship of the five the Vittoria with 21 men aboard reached Spain in September 1522.
In 1525 Elcano together with García Jofre de Loaisa was appointed to the command of a fleet of seven ships and sent to claim the Moluccas for Charles V.
Elcano died while crossing the Pacific.
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