The Strait of Magellan (Spanish: Estrecho de Magallanes), also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland...
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coast of South America, and eventually discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing the ships to pass through to the Pacific Ocean, which Magellan himself...
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achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. During the expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fleet to pass from...
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mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas. The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds...
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Strait of Magellan to the south. Pedro de Valdivia subsequently founded several cities through southern Chile with the goal of reaching the Strait of...
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Patagonia (redirect from Fictional depictions of Patagonia)
the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and many bodies of water that connect them, such as the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel, and the Drake Passage to...
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Strait of Magellan was at times patrolled by fleets sent to prevent entrance of non-Spanish ships. To end navigation by rival powers in the Strait of...
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Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa (category Spanish explorers of the Pacific)
Pacific Coast of South America, passed the Magellan Strait from west to east for the second time, drawing precious maps of many points of the Strait, and, after...
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The East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute or the Patagonia Question was the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile during...
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the south of the Strait of Magellan until the South Pole, and, to the east and west, the borders were the ones specified in the treaties of Tordesillas...
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16th century, the Spanish Empire attempted to settle the Strait of Magellan with the aim of controlling the only known passage between the Atlantic and...
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Drake Passage (redirect from Drake Strait)
The other two passages around the southern extremity of South America — the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel — have frequent narrows, leaving...
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Patagonian sheep farming boom (category History of agriculture in Argentina)
colony in Brunswick Peninsula to assert sovereignty over the strategic Strait of Magellan. Early sheep herding activity in the Chilean colony was very modest...
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Francis Drake's circumnavigation (category History of the Royal Navy)
colonization attempt of the Strait of Magellan aimed to block access to the Pacific. During the early stages of the Age of Discovery, the Treaty of Tordesillas...
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October 21: Arriving at the Cape of the Eleven Thousand Virgins, entry to what would be known as Strait of Magellan. End of October: San Antonio, charged...
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Dardanelles, Strait of Magellan, Strait of Gibraltar, Strait of Dover, and Danish straits, with the most famous being probably the Strait of Hormuz. The...
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The Chilean takeover of the Strait of Magellan began in 1843 when an expedition founded Fuerte Bulnes. In 1848 the settlement of Punta Arenas was established...
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world war battles in the Strait of Magellan, on 15 December 1914 Chile declared that the internal waters of the Strait of Magellan as well as the channels...
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the Strait of Magellan, and the Magellanic penguin. In other cases, modern entities (such as NASA's Magellan probe) have been named after Magellan in reference...
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asteroid Magellan Bay, Philippines Magellan's Cross, a geographic location in the Philippines Sea of Magellan, see Pacific Ocean Strait of Magellan, a geographic...
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right of ships of all flags to navigate expeditiously and without obstacles through its jurisdictional waters to and from the Strait of Magellan". Boundary...
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Magallanes Region (redirect from Magellan and Chilean Antarctic Region)
Fuego island, and the Strait of Magellan. It also includes the Antarctic territory claimed by Chile. Despite its large area, much of the land in the region...
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Southern Patagonian Ice Field dispute (category Territorial disputes of Argentina)
conflict Puna de Atacama Cordillera of the Andes Boundary Case East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute Argentina-Chile relations...
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Strait of Magellan. Thus both groups overlapped in Gulf of Penas, Guayaneco Archipelago and other islands. Yaghans inhabited a reduced area south of Tierra...
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Punta Arenas (redirect from History of Punta Arenas)
of Magellan, Punta Arenas was originally established by the Chilean government in 1848 as a small penal colony to assert sovereignty over the Strait. During...
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Wager Mutiny (category 18th-century history of the Royal Navy)
modified schooner (named Speedwell) via the Strait of Magellan to Portuguese administered Rio de Janeiro. Most of the mutineers either died or were abandoned...
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and Samoa. Six years after Magellan, in 1526, one of the ships of the Loaísa expedition sailed through the Strait of Magellan and followed the coast north...
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16 April 2013 Chilean Navy, "Sailing along the Strait of Magellan or Drake Passage", Strait of Magellan, Chilean channels and fjords. Regulations and information...
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Beagle Channel (category Bodies of water of Magallanes Region)
Passage) and to the north (Strait of Magellan). Under the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina, ships of other nations navigate...
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Francis Drake (redirect from Francis Drake, the Voyages of)
Ocean via the Strait of Magellan (or possibly Cape Horn); this route was ruled out, however, to avoid the dangerous weather near the strait and presumed...
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