Region of Magallanes
Magallanes Province
Punta Arenas

Strait of Magellan

The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern separating mainland to the north and the archipelago to the south.
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  • Type: Strait
  • Description: body of water in Chile connecting Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
  • Also known as: “Magalhaen”, “Magellan Strait”, “Magellan’s Straits”, “Strait of Victoria”, and “Victoria Strait”

Strait of Magellan

Latitude
-53.9282° or 53° 55′ 42″ south
Longitude
-71.10214° or 71° 6′ 8″ west
Open location code
37RC3VCX+P4
Geo­Names ID
3845265
Wiki­data ID
Q48365
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Satellite Map

Discover Strait of Magellan from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Strait of Magellan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Straat van Magellaan”
  • Albanian: “Ngushtica e Magelanit”
  • Albanian: “Ngushtica e Mangelanit”
  • Arabic: “ماجلان”
  • Arabic: “مضيق ماجلان”
  • Armenian: “Մագելանի նեղուց”
  • Asturian: “Estrechu de Magallanes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Magellan boğazı”
  • Bashkir: “Магеллан боғаҙы”
  • Basque: “Magallaes itsasartea”
  • Basque: “Magallanes itsasartea”
  • Bavarian: “Magellanstross”
  • Belarusian: “Магеланава пратока”
  • Belarusian: “Магеланавы праліў”
  • Belarusian: “Магеланаў праліў”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাজেলান প্রণালি”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাজেলান প্রণালী”
  • Bosnian: “Magelanov prolaz”
  • Bosnian: “Magellanov prolaz”
  • Breton: “Strizh-mor Magalhaes”
  • Breton: “Strizh-mor Magalhães”
  • Bulgarian: “Магеланов проток”
  • Catalan: “Estret de Magalhães”
  • Catalan: “estret de Magallanes”
  • Catalan: “Estret de Magallanes”
  • Cebuano: “Strait of Magellan”
  • Chechen: “Магелланан хидоькъе”
  • Chinese: “Magellan hái-kiap”
  • Chinese: “麥哲倫海峽”
  • Chinese: “麦哲伦海峡”
  • Croatian: “Estrecho de Magallanes”
  • Croatian: “Mageljanov prolaz”
  • Croatian: “Magellanov prolaz”
  • Czech: “Magalhãesův průliv”
  • Czech: “Magellanův průliv”
  • Danish: “Magellanstrædet”
  • Dutch: “Magalhaesstraat”
  • Dutch: “Magalhãesstraat”
  • Dutch: “Magallanesstraat”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magalhaes”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magallanes”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magelhaen”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magelhaes”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magellaan”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magellan”
  • Dutch: “Straat Magellanes”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magalhaes”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magalhães”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magallanes”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magelhaen”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magelhaes”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magelhães”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magellaan”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magellan”
  • Dutch: “Straat van Magellanes”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مضيق ماجلان”
  • Esperanto: “Magelana markolo”
  • Estonian: “Magalhaesi väin”
  • Estonian: “Magalhãesi väin”
  • Finnish: “Magalhaesin salmi”
  • Finnish: “Magalhãesin salmi”
  • Finnish: “Magalhaesinsalmi”
  • Finnish: “Magalhãesinsalmi”
  • French: “Détroit de la Toussaint”
  • French: “Detroit de Magellan”
  • French: “détroit de Magellan”
  • French: “Détroit de Magellan”
  • Galician: “Estreito de Magalláns”
  • Georgian: “მაგელანის სრუტე”
  • German: “Magalhãesstraße”
  • German: “Magellan-Straße”
  • German: “Magellanstrasse”
  • German: “Magellanstraße”
  • Greek: “Πορθμός Μαγγελάνου”
  • Greek: “Πορθμός του Μαγγελάνου”
  • Greek: “Στενά του Μαγγελάνου”
  • Hebrew: “מיצר מגלן”
  • Hebrew: “מיצרי מגלן”
  • Hebrew: “מצר כל הקדושים”
  • Hebrew: “מצר מגלן”
  • Hebrew: “מצרי מגלן”
  • Hindi: “मैजेलन जलडमरूमध्य”
  • Hungarian: “Magellán-szoros”
  • Icelandic: “Magellansund”
  • Ido: “Stretajo di Magalhaes”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Magelhaens”
  • Indonesian: “Selat Magellan”
  • Interlingua: “Stricto de Magellanes”
  • Irish: “Caolas de Magallanes”
  • Irish: “Estrecho de Magallanes”
  • Italian: “Estreito de Todos los Santos”
  • Italian: “Stretto di Magellano”
  • Italian: “Stretto di ognissanti”
  • Japanese: “マガリャネス海峡”
  • Japanese: “マゼラン海峡”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Magellan buǵazı”
  • Kazakh: “Магеллан бұғазы”
  • Kirghiz: “Магеллан кысыгы”
  • Korean: “마젤란 해협”
  • Kurdish: “Tengava Macellan”
  • Latin: “Fretum Magellanicum”
  • Latvian: “Magelāna šaurums”
  • Latvian: “Visu Svēto šaurums”
  • Lithuanian: “Magelano sąsiauris”
  • Macedonian: “Магеланов Проток”
  • Malay: “Selat Magellan”
  • Malayalam: “മഗല്ലൻ കടലിടുക്ക്”
  • Manx: “Keyllys Magellan”
  • Marathi: “दक्षिण अमेरिकेची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Marathi: “मॅगेलनची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Marathi: “मेजेलनची सामुद्रधुनी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Magellan hái-kiap”
  • Mingrelian: “მაგელანიშ საროტი”
  • Northern Frisian: “Magellanstruat”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estreito de Todos los Santos”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Magellanstredet”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Magellansundet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Magellanstredet”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Magellansundet”
  • Norwegian: “Magellanstredet”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estrech de Magellan”
  • Persian: “تنگه ماژلان”
  • Polish: “Cieśnina Magellana”
  • Polish: “Estrecho de Magallanes”
  • Portuguese: “Estreito de Magalhães”
  • Quechua: “Estrecho de Magallanes”
  • Quechua: “Magallanes k’ikllu”
  • Romanian: “Strâmtoarea Magellan”
  • Russian: “Магелланов пролив”
  • Russian: “Пролив Магеллана”
  • Scots: “Strait o Magellan”
  • Serbian: “Магеланов мореуз”
  • Serbian: “Магеланов пролаз”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magelanov moreuz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magelanov prolaz”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Magellanov tjesnac”
  • Slovak: “Magalhaesov prieliv”
  • Slovak: “Magalhãesov prieliv”
  • Slovenian: “Estrecho de Magallanes”
  • Slovenian: “Magellanov preliv”
  • Slovenian: “Magellanova ožina”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Magallanes”
  • Spanish: “Estrecho de Todos los Santos”
  • Spanish: “Estreito de Todos los Santos”
  • Spanish: “Region magallanica”
  • Spanish: “Región magallánica”
  • Swahili: “Mlangobahari wa Magellan”
  • Swedish: “Magalhães sund”
  • Swedish: “Magelhāes sund”
  • Swedish: “Magellans sund”
  • Swedish: “Magellansundet”
  • Tagalog: “Kipot ni Magallanes”
  • Tagalog: “Kipot ni Magellan”
  • Tagalog: “Magellan Strait”
  • Tagalog: “Magellanic Strait”
  • Tagalog: “Mahelanikong Kipot”
  • Tagalog: “Mahelanikong mga Kipot”
  • Tagalog: “Mga Kipot ni Magallanes”
  • Tagalog: “Mga Kipot ni Magellan”
  • Tagalog: “Strait of Magellan”
  • Tagalog: “Straits of Magellan”
  • Tamil: “மகெல்லன் நீரிணை”
  • Tamil: “மாகெல்லன் நீரிணைவு”
  • Tatar: “Магеллан бугазы”
  • Thai: “Strait of Magellan”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบมาเจลลัน”
  • Thai: “ช่องแคบแมเจลแลน”
  • Tibetan: “མེ་ཀྲི་ལོན་མཚོ་འགག”
  • Turkish: “Macellan Boğazı”
  • Turkish: “Magellan Boğazı”
  • Ukrainian: “Магелланова протока”
  • Ukrainian: “Маґелланова протока”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan bo‘g‘ozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan Bo‘g‘ozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan bo’g’ozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan Bo’g’ozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan bo`g`ozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan Bo`g`ozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan boʻgʻozi”
  • Uzbek: “Magellan Boʻgʻozi”
  • Vietnamese: “Eo biển Magellan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Estrecho ni Magallanes”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suláng ni Magallanes”
  • Welsh: “Culfor Magellan”
  • Western Frisian: “Magellaanstrjitte”
  • Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Magelhaen”
  • Western Frisian: “Strjitte fan Magellaan”
  • Wu Chinese: “麦哲伦海峡”
  • Yakut: “Магеллаан силбэһиитэ”
  • Yue Chinese: “麥哲倫海峽”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as San Juan and Puerto del Hambre.

Notable Places Nearby

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Patagonia: Must-Visit Destinations

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Strait of Magellan”. Photo: NASA, Public domain.