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The naming source of the Straits. Along the coast of Eurasia, navigation has been a very developed coastal zone since ancient times, and most of the straits are named after the nearest place names. For example, the English Channel (Dover), Malacca, Singapore, etc. Sailors have been sailing here for many years. Who knows when they discovered it? On the edge of the once civilized world, in Greenland, in the southern corners of Africa and America, near the Arctic Circle, and among the islands in the vast Pacific Ocean, straits are almost all named after people. Magellan set sail in 1519 and named strait of magellan when crossing South America. From 1585 to 1587, the British navigator Davis explored the northwest route three times and entered the Arctic Circle for the first time, leaving a davis strait; In 1577, an English pirate ship "Jin Lu" was driven to the south of Tierra del Fuego by a storm, and accidentally discovered the passage between South America and Antarctica, so it was named Drake Strait after the pirate leader. In 1769, an Englishman, Cook, passed through the middle of New Zealand's two islands, one south and one north, and discovered the Cook Strait. In 1787, the Frenchman La Peruz visited the Asian coast and left his name between Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido. In 1724, the Danish Bering crossed the Sea of Okhotsk to Kamchatka Island, entered the Arctic Ocean the following year, and went to Alaska again 17 years later. The island where he died was called Bering Island, and Na Pianhai was called Bering Sea. The strait that international international date line had to accommodate was called Bering Strait. There are also exceptions. For example, da Daniil Strait, da Daniil means bracelet in Latin, and Bosphorus means "crossing cattle", which is based on the legend that Zeus changed cattle to carry people to swim across the river. The naming origin of the Strait of Gibraltar can be traced back to Arabic. A general named Tariq built a castle at the southern end of the peninsula, which is called Zhibul Tariq. Zhibul means mountain, but in English it becomes Gibraltar.