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Magellan often refers to Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521), a Portuguese explorer who led part of the first expedition around the world. Magellan may also refer to:
Places
- 4055 Magellan, an Amor asteroid
- Magellan Bay
- Magellan's Cross, a geographic location in the Philippines
- Sea of Magellan, see Pacific Ocean
- Strait of Magellan, a geographic location in South America
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- 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
- Magellan, a 10,000 scouter ship armada mother-ship beyond Pluto in Fredric Brown's blue sand novelette "Arena"
- Beta Magellan, a star orbited by the Bynar home planet Bynaus in the Star Trek TNG episode "11001001"
- Magellan class battleship, a fictional class of battleship in the Gundam universe
Literature
- Magellania (English 2008; French 1987 as En Magellanie), an 1897 science fiction novel restored in 2008 as written by Jules Verne, commonly known in the altered 1909 version of The Survivors of the "Jonathan"
- Missions magellaniques (French), a September 2000 science fiction Perry Rhodan novel (#148) by K. H. Scheer and Clark Darlton
- Remous dans les nuages de Magellan (French), a January 2000 science fiction Perry Rhodan novel (#143) by K. H. Scheer and Clark Darlton
- "The Grift of the Magellanae", a science fiction short story by Robin Wilson, published in the March 1999 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
- The Magellan Nebula, a 1963 science fiction work by Stanislaw Lem
Other arts, entertainment, and media
- Magellan (2017 film), a science fiction film co-written by Scott Baird and Rob York
- Magellan (band), a progressive rock band
Astronomy
- Magellan (spacecraft), a NASA unmanned space mission to Venus
- Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile
- Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas, Chile
- Magellanic Clouds, or Clouds of Magellan
Brands and enterprises
- 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 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
- Magellan expedition, or the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation, see Timeline of Magellan's circumnavigation
- Order of Magellan, an honor bestowed on distinguished circumnavigators by The Circumnavigators Club (club founded 1902)
Computing and technology
- Magellan (search engine), a forerunner of the Excite web portal
- Lotus Magellan, a file manager software
Transportation
- CMA CGM Magellan, a 2010 container ship
- Ferdinand Magellan (railcar), a former presidential rail car from 1943 until 1958, currently held by the Gold Coast Railroad Museum
- MS Magellan (ship, 1985), a cruise ship
Other uses
- Magellan sheep dog, a dog originated in Chile
See also
- Magalhães, the Portuguese form of the name
- Magellana, a moth genus
- Magallanes (disambiguation), the Spanish form of the name
- Magellanic (disambiguation)
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