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unusual facts about Straits of Magellan



Narrowmouthed catshark

The narrowmouthed catshark, Schroederichthys bivius, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found from central Chile around the Straits of Magellan to Argentina between latitudes 23° S and 56° S, at depths of between 15 and 80 metres.

Thomas Lodge

Having been to sea with Captain Clarke in his expedition to Terceira and the Canaries, Lodge in 1591 made a voyage with Thomas Cavendish to Brazil and the Straits of Magellan, returning home by 1593.


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Rodney Gordon

He was born on 2 February 1933 in Wanstead, east London to a Polish-Russian father and a Chilean mother, who was from the naval port of Punta Arenas, Tierra Del Fuego, the southernmost city on Earth, overlooking the Straits of Magellan.