List of things named for Ferdinand Magellan

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This is a list of things for which Ferdinand Magellan is the namesake.

[edit] Places

• The Strait of Magellan in South America
• Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena a province of Chile, South America
• Magallanes, a town in eastern Mindanao, in southern Philippines. It was formerly part of a larger geographical area, called Butuan City.
• the two Magellanic Clouds: the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud
• The Magellan System, a starsystem in Freelancer(Computer Game)

[edit] Things

• The Spheniscus magellanicus or Magellanic Penguin
• The Magellan probe mission to Venus
• The Magellan Project, a pair of telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile