Straits of Magellan

English Proper noun Straits of Magellan p 1 en Strait of Magellan. en 1669 John Nievhoff w:John Ogilby An embassy from the East-India Company An Embassy from the Eaſt-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperour of China https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/ John Macock London 561227535 3–4 https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-126081-3026/page/n14/ Under our new World may alſo be compriſed thoſe vaſt Southern Coaſts and Streights of Magelan, firſt lighted on by Ferdinandus Magelanus in the year 1520, in his Circumnavigation of the Univerſe ; which forty five years after Sir Francis Drake, and next Sir Thomas Bendiſh, Engliſhmen, made a furhter inſpection into ; and in the Year 1600 Oliver van Noord a Hollander paſt, but of later years a Spaniard, Fedinand de Quier, out-ſhot them all by a more ample Diſcovery then all the former. en 1844 w:James Fenimore Cooper w:Afloat and Ashore https://archive.org/details/afloatashore00cooprich/ 257 https://archive.org/details/afloatashore00cooprich/page/n274/ Well, as if that wern't enough, we ship together again in this vessel, and a time we had of it with the French letter-of-marque. After that, a devil of a passage we made of it through the Straits of Magellan. 349 The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude. en 12/16/2018 Andrew Glass Roosevelt dispatches U.S. fleet on goodwill voyage, Dec. 16, 1907 https://web.archive.org/web/20181216184914/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/16/this-day-in-politics-december-16-1060795 16 December 2018 w:Politico As the Panama Canal was still not ready, the fleet had to pass across the tip of South America through the Straits of Magellan. Further reading