USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Strait of Anián was a semi-mythical strait, documented from around 1560, that was believed by early modern cartographers to mark the boundary between North America and Asia and to permit access to a Northwest Passage from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific.

Detailed explanation-2: -They imagined the existence of a marine passage through that looming and rocky land blocking their way to the west-North America. Spaniards called this mythical passage the Strait of Anián. The British called it the Northwest Passage.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Francis Drake sought the western entrance in 1579. The Greek pilot Juan de Fuca claimed he had sailed the strait from the Pacific to the North Sea and back in 1592.