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The channel's eastern area forms part of the border between Chile and Argentina and the western area is entirely within Chile. The Beagle Channel, the Straits of Magellan to the north, and the open-ocean Drake Passage to the south are the three navigable passages around South America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Most commercial ...
It is the first official map of Argentina showing in the area of the Beagle Channel a different frontier from the one established in the Boundary Treaty with Chile of 1881. As may be seen from the map, the boundary line deviates from the Beagle Channel towards Picton and Richmond Passages to end up between Lennox and Nueva Islands.
The Beagle Channel, the Straits of Magellan and the Drake Passage are the only three waterways between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean in the southern hemisphere. After refusing to abide by a binding international award giving the islands to Chile, the Argentine junta advanced the nation to war in 1978 in order to produce a boundary ...
The Beagle Channel or strait in Tierra del Fuego National Park is named after the British ship HMS Beagle, which sailed with the naturalist Charles Darwin aboard in 1833–34. [18] The channel separates islands of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, in extreme southern South America.
Beagle Channel; Safe sea-lane between the South Atlantic and the South Pacific Settlements: Puerto Navarino, Puerto Williams, Puerto Toro. Darwin Sound (not to be confused with Darwin Channel) Access to Beagle Channel from the Pacific and the Strait of Magellan Settlements: Abra Channel; Access to the Strait of Magellan from Pacific Ocean ...
World map from 1572, ... [31] [32] Beagle Channel is a prominent area to watch rare, endemic dolphins, [33] and the less-studied pygmy right whales.
On 22 July 1971 Salvador Allende and Alejandro Lanusse, the Presidents of Chile and Argentina, signed an arbitration agreement (the Arbitration Agreement of 1971).This agreement related to their dispute over the territorial and maritime boundaries between them, and in particular the title to the Picton, Nueva and Lennox islands near the extreme end of the American continent, which was ...
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