Question:  Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov is credited with being the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland across what strait?         
Context: Aukrasanden is a village in Aukra Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.  The village is located on the southeast side of the island of Gossa, just south of the village of Varhaugvika and the municipal centre of Falkhytta.  Just south of Aukrasanden is a ferry connection to Hollingen which is located on the mainland across the Julsundet strait.  Aukra Church is located in Aukrasanden.  The 1.11 km2 village has a population (2013) of 948, giving the village a population density of 854 PD/km2 . Originally, the Salt Lake Valley was inhabited by the Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and Ute Native American tribes.  At the time of the founding of Salt Lake City the valley was within the territory of the Northwestern Shoshone, who had their seasonal camps along streams within the valley and in adjacent valleys.  One of the local Shoshone tribes, the Western Goshute tribe, referred to the Great Salt Lake as "Pi'a-pa", meaning "big water", or "Ti'tsa-pa", meaning "bad water".  The land was treated by the United States as public domain; no aboriginal title by the Northwestern Shoshone was ever recognized by the United States or extinguished by treaty with the United States.  Father Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, a Spanish Franciscan missionary is considered the first European explorer in the area in 1776, but only came as far north as Utah valley (Provo), some 60 miles south of the Salt Lake City area.  The first US visitor to see the Salt Lake area was John Chugg in 1824.  U.S. Army officer John C. Frémont surveyed the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake Valley in 1843 and 1845.  The Donner Party, a group of ill-fated pioneers, traveled through the Great Salt Lake Valley a year before the Mormon pioneers.  This group had spent weeks traversing difficult terrain and brush, cutting a road through the Wasatch Mountains, coming through Emigration canyon into the Salt Lake Valley on August 12, 1846.  This same path would be used by the vanguard company of Mormon pioneers, and for many years after that by those following them to Salt Lake. Trinidad and Tobago are continental islands with a geologically very recent history of direct land bridge connection to South America.  As a result, unlike most of the Caribbean Islands, Trinidad and Tobago supports a primarily South American flora and fauna and has greater diversity of plant and animal species than the Antilles.  However, rates of endemism are lower than in the rest of the Caribbean because there has been less time for genetic isolation from mainland populations because of the history of land bridge connections and hence fewer opportunities for speciation, and so a greater proportion of the species in Trinidad and Tobago are also found on the South American mainland.  Trinidad is nearer to mainland South America and has been directly connected to the mainland via land bridges more often and for longer periods than Tobago.  This, as well as Trinidad's larger size and more varied topography and hydrology compared to that of Tobago allow greater species and ecosystem diversity on the former compared to that on the later of the islands. The history of New Zealand dates back at least 700 years to when it was discovered and settled by Polynesians, who developed a distinct Māori culture centred on kinship links and land.  The first European explorer to sight New Zealand was Dutch navigator Abel Tasman on 13 December 1642.  The Dutch were also the first non-natives to explore and chart New Zealand's coastline.  Captain James Cook, who reached New Zealand in October 1769 on the first of his three voyages, was the first European explorer to circumnavigate and map New Zealand.  From the late 18th century, the country was regularly visited by explorers and other sailors, missionaries, traders and adventurers.  In 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the British Crown and various Māori chiefs, bringing New Zealand into the British Empire and giving Māori the same rights as British subjects.  There was extensive British settlement throughout the rest of the century and into the early part of the next century.  War and the imposition of a European economic and legal system led to most of New Zealand's land passing from Māori to Pākehā (European) ownership, and most Māori subsequently became impoverished. The K’omoks or K'ómoks, usually known in English as the Comox people, are an indigenous group of Coast Salishan-speaking people in Comox, British Columbia and in Toba Inlet and the Malaspina Peninsula areas of the British Columbia mainland across Georgia Strait.  They historically spoke the Komox language (Comox-Sliammon), and were divided in two main dialect and tribal groupings, which are known by academics as "Island Comox" and "Mainland Comox". The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, located at the base of the Southern Hemisphere.  At the surface, it is the biggest, most prominent peninsula in Antarctica as it extends 1300 km from a line between Cape Adams (Weddell Sea) and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands.  Beneath the ice sheet which covers it, the Antarctic Peninsula consists of a string of bedrock islands; these are separated by deep channels whose bottoms lie at depths considerably below current sea level.  They are joined together by a grounded ice sheet.  Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America, lies only about 1000 km away across the Drake Passage. Tierra del Fuego ( , ] ; Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.  The archipelago consists of the main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, with an area of 48100 km2 , and a group of many islands, including Cape Horn and Diego Ramírez Islands.  Tierra del Fuego is divided between Chile and Argentina, with the latter controlling the eastern half of the main island and the former the western half plus the islands south of Beagle Channel.  The southernmost extent of the archipelago is at about latitude 55 S. Bartolomeu Dias (] ; Anglicized: Bartholomew Diaz; c. 1451 – 29 May 1500), a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer.  He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, reaching the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic, the first European known to have done so. Nikolai Mikhaylovich Albov (Russian: Николай Михайлович Альбов , 15 October 1866 — 6 December 1897, La Plata, Argentina) was a Russian botanist and geographer.  He made his mark first as an explorer of the Caucasus, to which he made several extensive trips financed by the Swiss Botanist Society, and later, after having moved to Argentina in 1895, of the Southern regions of South America.  He is credited with being arguably the first European explorer to have traveled extensively over Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and (writing in Russian and French), described its flora. Elkan Nathan Adler (24 July 1861 in St Luke's, London – 15 September 1946 in London) was an English author, lawyer, historian, and collector of Jewish books and manuscripts. Adler's father was Nathan Marcus Adler, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire.  He traveled extensively and built an enormous library, particularly of old Jewish documents.  Adler was among the first to explore the documents stored in the Cairo Genizah, being in fact the first European to enter it.  During his visits to Cairo in 1888 and 1895 Adler collected and brought over 25,000 Genizah manuscript fragments back to England.
Answer: Strait of Magellan