Editing Francis Drake (section)

===Entering the Pacific (1578)===
[[File:Golden Hinde, Londres, Inglaterra, 2014-08-11, DD 107.JPG|thumb|A replica of the ''[[Golden Hind]]'' at [[Bankside]] in London]]
The three remaining ships of his convoy departed for the Magellan Strait at the southern tip of South America. A few weeks later in September 1578 Drake made it to the Pacific, but violent storms destroyed one of the three ships, ''Marigold'' (captained by John Thomas) in the strait and caused another, ''Elizabeth'', captained by [[John Wynter]], to return to England,<ref name="MontanezUrbina2019">{{cite book |last1=Montanez-Sanabria |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Urbina Carasco |first2=María Ximena |editor1-last=Rojo |editor1-first=Danna A. Levin |editor2-last=Radding |editor2-first=Cynthia |title=The Oxford Handbook of Borderlands of the Iberian World |year=2019 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0197507704 |page=727 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vCy7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA727 |chapter=The Spanish Empire's Southernmost Frontiers: From Arauco to the Strait of Magellan}}</ref> leaving only ''Pelican''. After this passage, ''Pelican'' was pushed south and discovered an island that Drake called [[Elizabeth Island (Cape Horn)|Elizabeth Island]]. Drake, like navigators before him, probably reached a latitude of 55°S (according to astronomical data quoted in [[Richard Hakluyt]]'s ''The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation'' of 1589) along the Chilean coast.<ref name="Wagner2006">Wagner, Henry R., ''Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World: Its Aims and Achievements'', Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2006, {{ISBN|1428622551}}.</ref> 

In the Magellan Strait Drake and his men engaged in skirmishes with local indigenous people, becoming the first Europeans to kill indigenous peoples in southern Patagonia. During their stay in the strait, crew members discovered that an infusion made of the bark of ''[[Drimys winteri]]'' could be used as remedy against [[scurvy]]. Captain Wynter ordered the collection of great amounts of bark – hence the scientific name.<ref name="Martinic1977">{{cite book |last=Martinic |first=Mateo |author-link=Mateo Martinic |year=1977 |title=Historia del Estrecho de Magallanes |language=es |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-10441.html |location=Santiago |publisher=Andrés Bello |pages=67–68 |access-date=28 January 2016 |archive-date=15 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315073421/http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-10441.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Historian [[Mateo Martinic]], who examined records of Drake's travels, credits him with the discovery of the "southern end of the Americas and the oceanic space south of it".<ref name="Martinic2019">{{cite journal |last1=Martinic B. |first1=Mateo |author-link1=Mateo Martinic |title=Entre el mito y la realidad. La situación de la misteriosa Isla Elizabeth de Francis Drake |trans-title=Between myth and reality. The situation of the mysterious Elizabeth Island of Francis Drake |language=es |journal=Magallania |date=2019 |volume=47 |issue=1 |pages=5–14 |doi=10.4067/S0718-22442019000100005 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of [[Tierra del Fuego]] was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of [[Willem Schouten]] and [[Jacob le Maire]] around Cape Horn in 1616.{{sfn|Kelsey|2000|p=135}}