2. BIOGRAPHY Juan SebastianElcano was fromGetaria, Guipuzkoa.He
was born in 1474 He was a Basqueexplorer whocompleted the
firstcircumnavigation ofthe world.
3. He set sail with fiveships ; theconcepcin, SanAntonio,
Trinidad andVictoria with a fleet of241 men from Spain. The fleet
sailedacross the AtlanticOcean to the easterncoast of Brazil
andinto Argentina.
4. Several days later In 1520, three shipsthey discovered aset
sail for the Pacificpassage known as Ocean and about 19the strait
of Magellan men died before theylocated in the reached Guam
insouthern tip of south1521.America and sailedthrough the
strait.
5. In 1525, Elcano wentback to sea, but in1526 other sailorsand
himself died inthe Pacific Ocean.