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It started cruise to San Rafael Glacier in 1976, in a small cargo ship named MV Mimi, then carrying only 12 passengers per trip. Then, built in 1978, the MV Skorpios I , the first tour Cruise Ship company in Chile, decommissioned in the channels of southern Chile in 2008 reaching to perform more than 600 cruises to Laguna San Rafael .
Scottish Chileans also played a prominent role in the annexation of Easter Island/Rapa Nui by Chile. [1]The Williamson-Balfour Company, a Scottish Chilean firm, controlled many aspects of island life, and in 1903 they created a subsidiary, Compania Explotadora de la Isla de Pascua (CEDIP), up until it was handed over to the Chilean Navy.
Robinson Crusoe Island (Spanish: Isla Róbinson Crusoe, pronounced [ˈisla ˈroβinsoŋ kɾuˈso]) is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated 670 km (362 nmi; 416 mi) west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean.
In England there was much interest in Scotland, and Johnson's book was not the first to report on it. Notably Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Scotland in 1769 was published in 1771, a far more detailed and lengthy account than Johnson's. Pennant set a new standard in travel literature: Johnson said of him "he's the best traveller I ever read; he ...
Occupying the southwest part of South America, Chile is normally divided into three geographic areas: [10]. Continental Chile comprises a long and narrow strip of land on the west coast of the Southern Cone that extends between the parallels 17°29'57"S and Diego Ramírez Islands at 56°32'12"S, mostly from the southeastern shore of the Pacific Ocean to the Andes, across 4270 km [11]
Most of the archipelago's present-day inhabitants reside on Robinson Crusoe Island, and mainly in the capital, San Juan Bautista, located at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast. [ 7 ] The group of islands is part of Chile's Valparaíso Region (which also includes Easter Island ) and, along with the Desventuradas Islands , forms one of ...
Investment from Britain contributed to Chile's prosperity, and British seamen helped the Chilean navy become a force in the South Pacific. Chile won two wars, the first against the Peru-Bolivian Confederation and the second, the War of the Pacific, in 1878-79, against an alliance between Peru and Bolivia. The liberal-socialist "Revolution of ...
The flag of Chile. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean.