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Marketing video from Magellan/Bristol that includes development of WSPS. Clips from flatbed and pendulum testing are shown. on YouTube. Video of a helicopter wire strike that occurred during a rescue exercise. The helicopter was equipped with a WSPS. Prior art
Nelson Channel is a navigable channel between Candlemas and Vindication Islands in Candlemas Islands group, in the South Sandwich Islands. First roughly charted by Captain James Cook , discoverer of these islands in 1775.
In Patrick O'Brian's novel Blue at the Mizzen, a British man-of-war is sent on a peace time mission to Chile and the Straits of Magellan. In the Jackie Chan Adventures animated television series in Season 2 Episode 24 - Scouts Honor, Jackie Chan teleport the episode's villain, Vanessa Barone, with the Eye of Aurora to Desolación Island, saying ...
Drake names the island Elizabeth Island. He gives this name despite already using it for a different island within the Strait of Magellan. The crew knows the significance of this anchorage: despite conventional wisdom that maintains a continental mass emanates from the south shore of the Strait of Magellan, it is actually a series of islands ...
The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. One of the most important voyages in the Age of Discovery —and in the history of exploration —its purpose was to cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to secure a trade ...
Magellan was born into a wealthy Portuguese family in around 1480, and became a skilled sailor and naval officer. Despite efforts to sail for his native Portugal , Magellan fell out of favor with the Portuguese King Manuel I and was later selected by King Charles I of Spain to search for a westward route to the Maluku Islands (the "Spice ...
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything is a collection of television comedy sketches, produced in 1999, broadcast in two parts on 2 and 4 January 2000 on BBC One.
Rodrigo Santoro as Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer and captain of the Trinidad [2] Álvaro Morte as Juan Sebastián Elcano, a Spanish explorer [2] Niccolò Senni as Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian explorer; Bárbara Goenaga as Beatriz, Magellan's wife [3] Gonçalo Diniz as Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese explorer and Beatriz's brother [3]