The first man generally recognized as having completed a full circumnavigation of the Earth is Juan Sebastián Elcano , a Spanish navigator who took command after Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines and brought the ship Victoria back to Spain in 1522.

Magellan is often mistakenly credited as the first to circumnavigate the globe because he led the expedition and planned the route, but he died before the voyage was completed. Elcano and the surviving crew were the ones who actually finished the journey, making them the first known people to complete a full loop around the planet.

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