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Explorer Ferdinand Magellan Named the Pacific Ocean in the 16th Century. In 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, in the employ of Spain, began a journey across the Atlantic Ocean to seek a western route to the Spice Islands via South America.

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