English Dictionary

Straits of Magellan

固有名詞

別表記 異形

Alternative form of Strait of Magellan

日本語の意味

マゼラン海峡の別名

Sailors in the 16th century feared navigating the Straits of Magellan because of their storms and narrow channels.

16世紀の船乗りたちは、嵐や狭い航路のためにマゼラン海峡を航行することを恐れていました。

意味（1）

Alternative form of Strait of Magellan

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.