Translation for 'Strait of Magellan' from English to Croatian

Strait of Magellan

Magellanov prolaz {m}zem.

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strait

uzak {adj}

tjesnac {m}naut.zem.

moreuz {m}naut.zem.

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Hudson Strait

Hudsonov prolaz {m}zem.

Bering Strait

Beringov prolaz {m}zem.

Bass Strait

Bassov prolaz {m}zem.

Cook Strait

Cookov prolaz {m}zem.

Torres Strait

Torresov prolaz {m}zem.

Korea Strait

Korejski prolaz {m}zem.

of

od {prep}

of course

dakako {adv}

naravno {adv}

out of

iz {prep}

izvan {prep}

instead of

umjesto {prep}

umjesto da

because of

zbog {prep}

radi {prep}

full of

pun {adj}

Republic of Cyprus

Republika {f} Ciparzem.

• She was the first nuclear-powered submarine to completely circumnavigate South America, and the first nuclear-powered submarine to navigate the Strait of Magellan during its 1976 Unitas run under the command of CDR Robert Partlow.
• He was then ordered further south to the Strait of Magellan to block any attempt of the German East Asia Squadron to penetrate into the South Atlantic.
• Elcano participated in a fierce mutiny against Ferdinand Magellan before the convoy discovered the Strait of Magellan, the passage between mainland South America and Tierra del Fuego.
• After being released, they returned from Batavia to Amsterdam in the company of Joris van Spilbergen, who was on a circumnavigation of the earth himself, be it via the traditional Strait of Magellan.
• The Continental Divide extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain into the Atlantic and (in northern North America) Arctic oceans (including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea and Hudson Bay).

• He anchored first at the island of Santa Magdalena near Punta Arenas, in the Strait of Magellan.
• Shipping shifted to the canal as captains sought to avoid the risks of the Strait of Magellan.
• The Spanish failure at colonizing the Strait of Magellan made Chiloé Archipelago assume the role of protecting the area of western Patagonia from foreign intrusions.
• In 1520, while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, Ferdinand Magellan discovered the southern passage now named after him (the Strait of Magellan) thus becoming the first European to set foot on what is now Chile.
• , passes through the Strait of Magellan in his ship, the newly renamed "Golden Hind".

• It has been suggested that all glaciers of Gran Campo Nevado next to the Strait of Magellan reached their largest extent of the whole Holocene epoch during the Little Ice Age.
• One of the largest and most difficult engineering projects ever undertaken, the Panama Canal shortcut greatly reduces the time for ships to travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, enabling them to avoid the lengthy, hazardous Cape Horn route around the southernmost tip of South America via the Drake Passage or Strait of Magellan and the even less popular route through the Arctic Archipelago and the Bering Strait.
• At first the Antarctic Plate subducted only in the southernmost tip of Patagonia, meaning that the Chile Triple Junction lay near the Strait of Magellan.
• In the southernmost islands, south of Tierra del Fuego and the Strait of Magellan, a tundra climate prevails.
• His objectives were to reach the most southerly point possible at this time in the Weddell Sea; to pass through the Strait of Magellan; to travel up the coast of Chile in order to head for Oceania with the objective of inspecting the new British colonies in Western Australia; to sail to Hobart; and to sail to New Zealand to find opportunities for French whalers and to examine places where a penal colony might be established.