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Land adjacent to the Strait of Magellan has been inhabited by indigenous Americans for at least 13,000 years. Upon their arrival in the region, they would have encountered native equines (), the large ground sloth Mylodon, saber toothed cats the extinct jaguar subspecies Panthera onca mesembrina, the bear Arctotherium, the superficially camel-like Macrauchenia, the fox-like canid Dusicyon avus ...
Length: 82 km (51 miles) Maximum boat length: 366 m (1,200 ft 9 in) Maximum boat beam: 49 m (160 ft 9 in) ... the Strait of Magellan or the Beagle Channel. Its ...
It widens to almost 80 kilometres (50 mi) in the south. The Strait of Magellan defines the eastern and southern limits while the Otway Sound delimits its western shores. It measures 115 kilometres (71 mi) in length from the base to Cape Froward, the southernmost point of the American mainland. This yields an area of more than 6,300 square ...
In 1525, Spanish navigator Francisco de Hoces discovered the Drake Passage while sailing south from the entrance of the Strait of Magellan. [2] Because of this, the Drake Passage is referred to as the "Mar de Hoces (Sea of Hoces)" in Spanish maps and sources, while almost always in the rest of the Spanish-speaking countries it is mostly known as “Pasaje de Drake” (in Argentina, mainly), or ...
Length: Overall: 1,092 feet (332.8 m) Waterline: 1,040 feet (317.0 m) ... Ronald Reagan transited the Strait of Magellan on 20–21 June and subsequently visited ...
A replica of the ship Ferdinand Magellan sailed in his attempt to circumnavigate the globe is in Charleston this week. Tours of the Nao Trindad, a three-mast, 93-foot-long vessel, are available ...
The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Its initial purpose was to cross the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to secure a trade route with the Moluccas , or Spice Islands, in present-day Indonesia .
Map of the Dispute of Eastern Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magellan between Argentina and Chile (1842–1881). The East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute [1] or the Patagonia Question was the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile [2] during the 19th century [3] [4] for the possession of the southernmost territories of South America [5] on the ...