Toribio Alonso de Salazar, (died 5 September 1526) born in

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, was a Spanish navigator of

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origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on August 21, 1526. De Salazar was part of the Fray García Jofre de Loaísa's expedition from Spain to the

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in 1525, the second in history to cross the Pacific Ocean, after the Magalhães-Elcano

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of the globe. De Salazar took command of ''Santa Maria de la Victoria'', the last of seven ships to survive the voyage, after the deaths of Loaísa and Juan Sebastián Elcano. He sighted the

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in the Marshall Islands en route to Guam, the Philippine Islands and finally the

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. After one month of holding the command, he also died of scurvy shortly after having left Guam on 5 September 1526, and was succeeded by Martín Íñiguez de Carquizano. The character

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from ''Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge'' is based on Alonso de Salazar

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* Spanish explorers of the Pacific 16th-century explorers 16th-century Spanish people 1526 deaths Deaths from scurvy People from Enkarterri {{Marshalls-bio-stub