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pronunciation:
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| Navigator and geographer, born in Nuremberg, SC Germany. He settled in Portugal about 1484 and was associated with the later Portuguese discoveries along the coast of Africa. He revisited Nuremberg in 1490, and there constructed the oldest extant terrestrial globe. A crater on the near side of the Moon is named after him. |
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