Le Maire Strait

Le Maire Strait

The Le Maire Strait ("Estrecho de le Maire") is a sea passage between Isla de los Estados and the eastern extremity of the Argentine portion of Tierra del Fuego.

Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten discovered the strait in 1616, while attempting to find a navigation link between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and shortly before their discovery of Cape Horn. The strait was named in honor of Le Maire.

ee also

* Garcia de Nodal expedition
* Jacob Le Maire

External links

* [http://maps.google.com/maps?t=k&ll=-54.802268,-64.863281&spn=0.957824,1.870422&t=k Satellite image from Google Maps]


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