Why is Magellan credited for circumnavigating the earth if he died?

February 18th, 2007 by Portable GPS System
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Jake asked:


He died before making it back so shouldnt Juan Sebastián Elcano be credited?
Shouldnt Juan Sebastián Elcano be credited and is this true?

http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/magellan.htm

He was killed by a posined arrow to the foot and a spear to the heart and they left his body behind and his crew burned his ship down?

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