Alternate Names for the Pacific Ocean and Australia?

Say Magellan ended up going through the Pacific during monsoon season (around November or thereabouts), when the Pacific isn't so pacific, what would he have named the ocean? Would it be an apt adjective, a saint, after himself, or after his patron?

And since I'm too lazy to make a new thread (because both ideas are going to be used in a single TL, anyway), how plausible is it for Magellan to land in Australia?
 
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Grand(large) Ocean (that is what it is called in dutch), other informal name for it in dutch: "Quiet Southsea"
 

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Say Magellan ended up going through the Pacific during monsoon season (around November or thereabouts), when the Pacific isn't so pacific, what would he have named the ocean? Would it be an apt adjective, a saint, after himself, or after his patron?

And since I'm too lazy to make a new thread (because both ideas are going to be used in a single TL, anyway), how plausible is it for Magellan to land in Australia?

Procellaric?

As in, Ocean of Storms?

Given that Magellan had next to no knowledge of the Pacific, landfall in Australia makes about as much sense as in the Phillippines.

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