The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Magellan" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Strait of Magellan">Strait of Magellan</a>, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ferdinand Magellan">Ferdinand Magellan</a> during the first recorded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumnavigation" id="mwTQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Circumnavigation">circumnavigation</a> voyage.