Map of the surroundings of Cape Hoorn and Le Maire Street
Le Maire Street is a passage between Staten Island and Vuurland in the far south of South America.
Le Maire Street was discovered by Jacob le Maire and Willem Cornelisz Schouten in 1616 when they sought a new passage to India. Although Francis Drake was driven so south in 1578 after his passage through Strait Magellan, that he could suspect that there was another passage between the Atlantic and the Great Ocean south of the Strait of Magellan, Le Maire and Schouten were the first to actually pass through. discovered. 54 ° 50 '0 "ZB, 64 ° 55' 0" WL
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