500 years ago today Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth and the first navigation through the Suez Canal 😱

3 comments

1. [He was not the first.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_of_Malacca) (If we consider the real route without Suez Canal.)

2. The Panama Canal was only discovered a century later and that’s why they had to circumvent South America.

3. Becarios, becarios everywhere