Francis Drake sees the Pacific
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Short Note 
The crew of the Golden Hind, captained by Francis Drake, become the
first Britons to see the Pacific Ocean. On their circumnavigation
of the globe, they had sailed down the Atlantic coast of South
America, and reached the Pacific through the narrow Strait of
Magellan, so named for the Portuguese sailor who had navigated it
in 1520.