Le Maire Strait
The Le Maire Strait, also known as the Straits Lemaire, is a strait between Isla de los Estados and the eastern extremity of the Argentine portion of Tierra del Fuego.- Strait
- Description: The northern entrance to the Strait of Magellan
- Also known as“Detroit de la Maire”“Estrecho de le Maire”“Strait of Le Maire”
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
-54.83333° or 54° 50′ south
Longitude
-65° or 65° west
Open location code
37QQ5282+M2
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Le Maire Strait” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مضيق لو مير”
- Azerbaijani: “Lemer boğazı”
- Catalan: “Estret de Le Maire”
- Cebuano: “Estrecho de Le Maire”
- Chinese: “勒梅尔海峡”
- Chinese: “勒梅爾海峽”
- Dutch: “Le Maire Straat”
- Dutch: “Straat Le Maire”
- Estonian: “Le Maire’i väin”
- French: “Détroit de Le Maire”
- French: “Détroit Le Maire”
- German: “Le-Maire-Strasse”
- German: “Le-Maire-Straße”
- Hebrew: “מצר לה מייר”
- Hungarian: “La Maire-szoros”
- Hungarian: “Le Maire-szoros”
- Japanese: “ルメール海峡”
- Latvian: “Lemēra šaurums”
- Polish: “Cieśnina Le Maire’a”
- Portuguese: “Estreito de Le Maire”
- Russian: “Ле-Майре”
- Russian: “Ле-Мер”
- Russian: “Пролив Лемера”
- Spanish: “Estrecho de Le Maire”
- Swedish: “Estrecho de Le Maire”
- Swiss German: “Le Maire-Strooss bim Kap Hoorn”
- Swiss German: “Le-Maire-Straße”
- Ukrainian: “Ле-Мер”
- Western Frisian: “Le Mairestrjitte”
- Western Frisian: “Strjitte Le Maire”
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