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Strait of Magellan panorama, Tierra del Fuego, South America

The Winding Waterways of Tierra del Fuego: Exploring the Strait of Magellan and Beagle Channel

2 weeks ago By The Editor
Threading through the Tierra del Fuego archipelago at the southern tip of South America, the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel are the two great navigable passages that, for nearly four centuries, connected the Atlantic and Pacific oceans without requiring ships to round Cape Horn's dangerous open waters. Both waterways carry names from famous voyages of exploration, and both were home to Indigenous communities who mastered a life lived almost entirely on and around the water.
Beagle Channel seen from Tierra del Fuego National Park

Tierra del Fuego: Archipelago of Fire and Ice

2 weeks ago By The Editor
At the southernmost extremity of South America, where the continent fragments into a thousand islands scattered across tempestuous seas, lies Tierra del Fuego, the "Land of Fire." Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese explorer who first glimpsed these shores in 1520, named the archipelago after witnessing the countless fires lit by Indigenous peoples along the coastline. Five centuries later, the region remains one of the most sparsely populated and geologically dynamic corners of the continent.
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