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Magellan (disambiguation)
Summary
Look up
Magellan
in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Ferdinand Magellan
(1480–1521) was a Portuguese explorer.
Magellan
may also refer to:
People
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Jean Hyacinthe de Magellan
(1723–1790), Portuguese natural philosopher
Murielle Magellan
(born 1967), French writer and theater director
Places
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4055 Magellan
, an Amor asteroid
Magellan Bay
, Philippines
Magellan's Cross
, a geographic location in the Philippines
Sea of Magellan, see
Pacific Ocean
Strait of Magellan
, a geographic location in South America
Magellan Rise
, a suburb of
Hamilton
New Zealand
Geology
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Magellan Seamounts
- Range in North West Pacific Ocean west of
Marshall Islands
.
Magellan Rise
- Oceanic Plateau east of the Marshall Islands
North Magellan Rise - Ocean floor feature south west of
Hawaii
and east of the Marshall Islands
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Film and TV
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Magellan
, a sequence of 24 short films by
Hollis Frampton
Fictional entities
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Magellan
, the survival space research vessel in the 2001 science fiction film
Ice Planet
Magellan
, an interstellar ark or generation starship in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novel
The Songs of Distant Earth
Other arts, entertainment, and media
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Magellan (band)
, a progressive rock band
"Magellan", a 1971 novelty song by
Yoyoy Villame
Astronomy
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Magellan
(spacecraft)
, a NASA uncrewed space mission to Venus
Giant Magellan Telescope
in Chile
Magellan Telescopes
at Las Campanas, Chile
Magellanic Clouds
, or Clouds of Magellan
Brands and enterprises
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Magellan Aerospace
, a Canadian aerospace manufacturer
Magellan Corporation, a global distributor of specialty steel based out of Chicago, Illinois
Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies
, a political polling firm that serves Republican Party candidates and organizations
Magellan Financial Group
, an Australian investment manager
Magellan Fund
, a mutual fund offered by Fidelity Investments
Magellan Midstream Partners
, American oil pipeline corporation
Magellan Navigation
Inc, a maker of GPS equipment
Circumnavigation and exploration
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Order of Magellan
, given by the Circumnavigators Club
Computing and technology
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Magellan (search engine)
, a forerunner of the Excite web portal
Lotus Magellan
, a file manager software
Transportation
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CMA CGM Magellan
, a 2010 container ship
Ferdinand Magellan
(railcar)
, a former presidential rail car
MS
Magellan
(ship, 1985)
, a former cruise ship
Other uses
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Magellan sheep dog
, a dog originated in Chile
See also
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Magalhães
, the Portuguese form of the name
Magellana
, a moth genus
Magallanes (disambiguation)
, the Spanish form of the name
Magellanic (disambiguation)