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Who discovered the rout around south America?
Francisco Magellen - he ws the first to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific through the tip of South America. The straits there are now named after him. - the Magellen straits.
Where is the Straits of Megellen?
It is the straits between the continents of South America and Antarctica, notorious for its danger to shipping, and named after the Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
What straits are found in south America?
Straits of Magellan
Who discovered the Strait around the Southern tip of South America in 1520 some of crew completed first circumnavigation of the World?
The explorer who discovered the straits around the southern tip of South America in 1520 and whose crew completed first circumnavigation of the world was Ferdinand Magellan. The straits were named after him in his honor.
What is the location of different straits?
Some are in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Antarctica even has some straits.
Name a strait in the sourthern part of south America?
The Strait of Magellan.The Straits of MagellanA particularly famous straight in the southern part of South America is the Straight of Magellan. The strait is named after the great Portuguese explorer of the same name.
What straits are in the southern part of South America?
Rio de la Plata
What separates the continent of South America from Antarctica?
Drake Passageseparates Cape Horn, Chile on South America from the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
How many bodies of water border the Americas?
There are 4 oceans that border North and South America (3 oceans each) : the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic for North America, and the Southern, Pacific, and Atlantic for South America. There are a large number of named seas, bays, gulfs, sounds, and straits that extend from these oceans, such as the Bering Sea, Bering Straits, Beaufort Sea, Hudson Bay, Baffin Bay, Davis Straits, Labrador Sea, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence -- all of which border Alaska or Canada.
Drake and Magellan both sailed through the straits at the tip of South America?
yes
What is the stormy channel that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
The straits of Magellan, Named after the explorer that discovered a passage through the bottom end of South America from the South Atlantic to the Pacific, thereby eliminating the need to go round Cape Horn. (Although the "Straits" are so windy, it's a toss-up which is the more dangerous route!)
Did drake and Magellan both sailed strait through the straits of the tip of south America?
why yeah
