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Land adjacent to the Strait of Magellan has been inhabited by indigenous Americans for at least 13,000 years. Upon their arrival in the region, they would have encountered native equines (), the large ground sloth Mylodon, saber toothed cats the extinct jaguar subspecies Panthera onca mesembrina, the bear Arctotherium, the superficially camel-like Macrauchenia, the fox-like canid Dusicyon avus ...
U.S. Atlantic Fleet battleships entering the straits en route to the Pacific, circa 7-8 February 1908, during the World cruise of the Great White Fleet. Photographed from the afterdeck of USS Georgia (Battleship # 15).
Magellan saw the island as he passed for the first time in the strait. Antonio Pigafetta, while speaking about the desertion of the San Antonio cites in his famous book, The First Voyage Round the World (Chap.79), that in to alert the crew of the ship if they ever try to get back:
The East Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and Strait of Magellan Dispute [1] or the Patagonia Question was the boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile [2] during the 19th century [3] [4] for the possession of the southernmost territories of South America [5] on the basis of disagreements over the boundaries corresponding to the uti possidetis ...
The Evangelistas Islets (Spanish: Islotes Evangelistas) are a group of four small, rocky islands lying on the Chilean continental shelf, some 30 km north-west of the western entrance to the Strait of Magellan, in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean, facing the full force of the "Furious Fifties".
Pages in category "Strait of Magellan" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Although it is navigable by large ships, there are safer waters to the south (Drake Passage) and to the north (Strait of Magellan). [3]Under the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina, ships of other nations navigate with a Chilean pilot between the Strait of Magellan and Ushuaia through the Magdalena Channel and the Cockburn Channel to the Pacific Ocean, then by ...
Punta Dungeness at the eastern entrance to the Strait of Magellan 52°23′54″S 68°26′6″W / 52.39833°S 68.43500°W / -52.39833; -68.43500 Punta Dúngeness is a headland at the eastern entrance of the Strait of Magellan on its north shore, opposite Cabo del Espiritu Santo in Tierra del