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People: Chong of Han
Topic: Drake's circumnavigation of the earth
Location: Chogha Zanbil > Dur Untash Khuzestan Iran

Drake's circumnavigation of the earth

Years: 1577 - 1580

Francis Drake, circumnavigating the Eath from 1577–1580 in Golden Hind, discovers the Drake Passage but enters the Pacific via the Strait of Magellan.

"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."

—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)