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Who completed the first circumnavigation after Ferdinand Magellan died?
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan, detail of a painting by an unknown artist; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
After Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines in April 1521, the Basque navigator Juan Sebastián del Cano took command of the expedition.12
Following a series of short-lived leadership changes, Cano assumed control of the Victoria, the only remaining ship capable of completing the journey. Despite facing extreme conditions including starvation, scurvy, and harassment by Portuguese forces, he successfully navigated the ship across the Indian Ocean and around the coast of Africa. Cano arrived back in Spain on September 8, 1522, with only 17 other European survivors, thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the Earth.321