Magellan.
Straits of Magellan. So called after Magellan or Magalhaens, the Portuguese navigator, who discovered them in 1520.
Straits of Magellan. So called after Magellan or Magalhaens, the Portuguese navigator, who discovered them in 1520.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.