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Magellan is know for first circumnavigating the earth, but he died in the Philippines, about half way around.

He had been to the Philippines before, coming from the other way.

Wow, I never realized he had sailed to the same longitude before heading West!

Apparently he made it as far Ambon Island in Indonesia, so he indeed circled the globe in nine years starting and ending in the East Indies.