Geography vocabulary: Difference between revisions

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* important straits and channels

** connects Black Sea to Aegean/Mediterranean Seas

** connects Mediterranean Sea to Atlantic Ocean

** ancient Greeks called the promontories on either side of the Strait of Gibraltar the "Pillars of Hercules", which marked the passage from the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean

** connects Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

** the passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by the explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who led the first expedition to circumnavigated the globe

** the Strait of Magellan is not "straight" -- is actually a U-shaped pathway formed by the Tierra del Fuego archipelago (chain of islands)

** a second, less navigable passageway near the southern tip of South America that was navigated by Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle  

** NOTE: the open-ocean passageway, around the very tip of South America is called "Drake's Passage", named for English explorer Francis Drake who circumnavigated the globe

** See:  

*** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait Strait (wiki)]]

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=== river ===

=== stream ===