X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Strait of Magellan


Juan Sebastián Elcano

Several days later they discovered a passage known as the Strait of Magellan located in the southern tip of South America and sailed through the strait.

Magallanes Province

Its eastern portion is located along the northern shore of the Strait of Magellan while the western portion straddles the strait on either side the strait's northwesterly stretch toward the Pacific Ocean.

RV Polar Duke

The "Duke" transported supplies and personnel between Palmer Station, Antarctica and the port of Punta Arenas, Chile, on the Strait of Magellan, for 13 years, providing seagoing and shore-based research support in waters and islands in the Drake Passage and around the Antarctic Peninsula.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X

In response, Artemis takes up a profitable contract with Las Trinidad and launches a surprise attack on the United States Navy carrier strike group in the Strait of Magellan.


Carl Saltzmann

Of his pictures resulting from these journeys may be mentioned "Corvette Prince Adalbert in the Strait of Magellan" (1883, Breslau Museum), "In the Pacific Ocean" (1888, German Emperor), and "Arrival of the Hohenzollern at Kronstadt" (Emperor of Russia).

Federico Errázuriz Echaurren

To celebrate the decision to arbitrate and avoid war, Presidente Errázuriz and Argentinian President Julio Argentino Roca held an international meeting in the Strait of Magellan.

José María Menéndez Menéndez

The Amadeus has been declared a National Monument by the Chilean Government, and his remains are on the beaches of the bay of San Gregorio (Chile), on the Strait of Magellan.

Luis Pardo

With Shackleton aboard the Yelcho sailed on 25 August from Punta Arenas, on the Strait of Magellan.

Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum

#Primordial Patagonia: describes the prehistory of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, which is generally considered to date from around 11,000-12,000 years ago, towards the end of the Ice Age, when the first bands of land-based hunter-gatherers reached Última Esperanza, the Strait of Magellan and Tierra del Fuego.

Southern hagfish

The Southern hagfish is found in the cold waters of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean from the coasts off Southwestern Brazil down to the Southern Ocean and the Tierra del Fuego and the Patagonian coasts of Chile and Argentina, including the Strait of Magellan.


see also

Cruizer-class sloop

She was used to survey the Strait of Magellan, as well as Canadian and Australian waters, and on 20 February 1884 was loaned to the US Navy to assist in the rescue of the expedition under Adolphus Greely.

Jave la Grande

Java Minor was identified as an island (the present Island of Java) by the Franco-Portuguese navigator and cosmographer Jean Alfonse in his work of 1544, La Cosmographie but Java Major according to him was part of the continent of Terra Australis, which extended as far as the Antarctic Pole and the Strait of Magellan.

Santa Inés Island

This latter is located in front of the island on the another side of the Strait of Magellan and is a peninsula of Riesco Island.