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   Project Gutenberg (gutenberg_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 04:00:12 JST Project Gutenberg

   #OTD in 1520.

   The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is known by this name after the Portuguese sailor Fernão de Magalhães sailed through it in the XVI century.

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     • Trojan Duck

     @daniel @todwest Already fixed, thanks @pspssp for your proper suggestion!

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     @todwest @gutenberg_org I entirely agree!

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     • Daniel Hernández

     @daniel @gutenberg_org It's easy to fall into such tropes. We should all be more conscious of it.

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     @todwest @gutenberg_org I was thinking the same. The Selknam, the Yagan, and the Kawesqar navigated those canals many years before, and they did very well to survive on such a difficult conditions.

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     @gutenberg_org I have a feeling the local folks who lived there at the time already knew about it