Magellan

Magallanes is the Castilian version of the Portuguese surname Magalhães, and can refer to:

People

• Fernando de Magallanes, Portuguese navigator, one of the great discoverers at the service of Spain.
• Manuel Magallanes Moure, Chilean poet, writer and journalist 1878-1924.
• Adelfo Magallanes CamposPeruvian footballer.
• Federico MagallanesUruguayan former footballer, born in 1976.

Places, institutions and things

The word Magellan appears in several terms related to the navigator Ferdinand Magellan:

• La Magellan-Elcano Expedition, first maritime expedition that manages to circumnavigate the Earth. Captaind by Fernando de Magallanes.
• The Strait of Magellan, maritime passage located in Chile, in the southern end of South America.
• The Magellan Territory (1853-1929), former Chilean territorial division.
• La Magellan Province (1929-1974), former Chilean administrative division.
• La Magellan Province, current Chilean province of the Magellan Region and the Chilean Antarctic.
• La Magellan and Chilean Antarctic Region, current region of Chile, located at the southern end of that country.
• The Department of Magellan, former Chilean geographical-political-administrative subdivision.
• La University of MagellanChilean State University, headquartered in the city of Punta Arenas.
• La Magellan Cannona Chilean warship that participated in the Pacific War.
• The Club Deportivo Magallanes, football club, one of the oldest in Chile.
• The Magellanthe Sunday edition of the Chilean newspaper La Prensa Austral.
• Them Magellan NavigatorsVenezuelan baseball team.
• Magellan, municipality of Agusan del Norte Province, Philippines
• Magellan, municipality of Cavite Province, Philippines.
• The Magellan, Spanish ship at the end of the centuryXVIII and beginnings of the centuryXIX.
• The Magellana ship built by Cunard Line under the name Chinasold in 1880 to a Spanish shipowner.
• The Magellan CloudsTwo galaxies near the Milky Way, the Great Magellan Cloud and the Little Magellan Cloud.
• La Magellan Mission (in English, MagellanTo Venus.

• La Fagnano-Magallanes Falla, regional fault system that forms part of the transformative limit between South American and Scotia tectonic plates.

• Magellan, Peruvian film directed by Salvador del Solar and released on August 20, 2015.