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It think that the article is incorrect in claiming that the straits provide a safer passage than the Drake Passage. For sailing vessels, this is not true because of a) the very limited searoom in the Straits and b) the very unpredictable and rapidly changing winds in the Straits. I am told that highly destructive squalls can drop off the mountains with very little warning. Although the Drake Passage has very high winds and seas, there is plenty of sea-room and the winds tend to be relatively steady. Given a well-found ship, the preference would clearly be for the Drake Passage, and most of the clipper ships followd this route.--APRCooper 12:48, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
When you say that it was less used than the drakes passage, its not totaly correct because steam ships prefered to use Magellan strait, while clippers and other sailing ships prefered drakes passage. 200.126.70.124 18:48, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The Wikipedia article on the Drake Passage states that Drake is more widely used than Magellan. Somebody needs to resolve this controversy with actual numbers of ships and tonnage. HowardMorland (talk) 17:10, 19 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The article is confused about what Drake actually did. It says that Drake crossed the strait in 1578, but that the Drake's Passage was found in 1616. In fact Drake did sail through, but thought that Tierra del Fuego was part of the great unknown southern continent. He was then driven back to the east by a storm, and found open water south of South America. This was previously unknown. This is now known as the Drake Passage.Dean1954 (talk) 14:58, 16 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Text and references copied from SpraytoStrait of Magellan, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:16, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Text and references copied from Pedro Sarmiento de GamboatoStrait of Magellan, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 01:12, 26 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I requested their assistance. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 13:32, 20 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've added Argentina to the basin_countries parameter of the infobox. It clearly belongs there, as Lago Fagnano, which lies mostly in Argentina, drains into the strait. According to the definition of the parameter in template:Infobox body of water:
-- Elphion (talk) 14:00, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
The Strait of Magellan is an interoceanic maritime pass, it is not a river or a lake, therefore, it does not have tributaries, nor does it have Basin countries. The reason that the Argentine wikipedista, to put this in the article is to confuse readers and promote the aspiration of some Argentines to have dominion over the Straits of Magallnes, a real national frustration for some Argentines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antarcticwik2020 (talk • contribs) 18:32, 8 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The satellite image doesn't clearly show the actual route. I can guess the long narrow body of water is part of it, mostly it or entirely it? But why do I need to guess, the image either needs to be annotated or a new map added to the article that shows the actual route.
Article simply needs something like the map on this page: https://www.cruisin.me/cruise-port-tracker/south-america/strait-of-magellan-chile/
Nomadism is moving around among a set and limited number of places, usually with the beginning of transhumance (pastoralism). People take their flocks from place to place.
Hunter-gatherers are not nomads, they are seasonal migrants - or free-ranging (and sometime their ranges are indefinite, as we think was the case in Patagonia).
Recently, so that there's greater understanding, archaeologists and anthropologists are combining the word "nomad" with a descriptor to indicate its fuzzy nature (sea-nomads; desert-nomads, etc). It's possible that the Patagonians were sea-nomads (implying that they had a region of origin, expanded it by sea travel, then went back to origin spot and so on). However I just don't see the evidence for that in the archaeology. Nor is there a citation for it here. El Cubedo (talk) 17:42, 17 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
