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strait_of_magellan has definitions from the fields of nautical,geography
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[ noun ] (nautical,geography) the strait separating South America from Tierra del Fuego and other islands south of the continent; discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520; an important route around South American before the Panama Canal was built

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strait channel

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