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Beagle Channel
Partial aerial view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean Navarino Island is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is seen at the bottom-left. Beagle Channel, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
Beagle Channel (Spanish: Canal del Beagle; Yahgan: Onašaga[1]) is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina.[2] The channel separates the larger main island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego from various smaller islands including the islands of Picton, Lennox and Nueva; Navarino; Hoste; Londonderry; and Stewart. 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 shipping uses the open-ocean Drake Passage.
The Beagle Channel is about 240 kilometres (130 nmi; 150 mi) long and 5 kilometres (3 nmi; 3 mi) wide at its narrowest point. It extends from Nueva Island in the east to Darwin Sound and Cook Bay in the Pacific Ocean in the west. Some 50 kilometres (27 nmi; 31 mi) from its western end, it divides into two branches, north and south of Gordon Island. The southwest branch between Hoste Island and Gordon Island enters Cook Bay. The northwest branch between Gordon Island and Isla Grande enters Darwin Sound, which connects to the Pacific Ocean by the O'Brien and Ballenero channels. The biggest settlement on the channel is Ushuaia in Argentina followed by Puerto Williams in Chile. These are amongst the southernmost settlements in the world.
According to a Selk'nam myth the channel was created alongside the Strait of Magellan and Fagnano Lake in places where slingshots fell on earth during Taiyín's fight with a witch who was said to have "retained the waters and the foods".[3]
^Piepke, Joachim G.; Striegel, Angelika (2017). "The Last Yagan: Reminiscences of Cristina Calderón from Tierra del Fuego". Anthropos. 112 (2): 562–568. doi:10.5771/0257-9774-2017-2-562. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 44791391. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
^Sergio Zagier, 2006
^Montecino Aguirre, Sonia (2015). "Canal de Beagle". Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos (in Spanish). Catalonia. p. 125. ISBN 978-956-324-375-8.
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the eastern part of the main island and a few small islands in the BeagleChannel, and Chile, which controls the remaining land area. The southernmost...
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on the north by the Martial mountain range and on the south by the BeagleChannel. It is the only municipality in the Department of Ushuaia, which has...
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bodies of water that connect them, such as the Strait of Magellan, the BeagleChannel, and the Drake Passage to the south. The Colorado and Barrancas rivers...
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at BeagleChannel Puerto Edén - Messier-Canal BeagleChannel, January 2006 Messier-Canal Puerto Edén - Messier-Canal Shipwreck Logos in the Beagle Channel...
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Soberanía, to invade Cape Horn and islands awarded to Chile by the BeagleChannel Arbitration. Soon after the event, Pope John Paul II offered to mediate...
the 1881 Boundary Treaty. Tierra del Fuego gold rush BeagleChannel cartography since 1881 Beagle conflict Wallmapu War of the Pacific See Libro de Defensa...
coast of the island of Tierra del Fuego, on the northern shore of the BeagleChannel; hence, it is further north than Puerto Williams. Puerto Williams (54°56′S...
southern extremity of South America — the Strait of Magellan and the BeagleChannel — have frequent narrows, leaving little maneuvering room for a ship...
like the Snipe incident.[citation needed] In 1958, a dispute over the BeagleChannel's border line led to a military incident between Chile and Argentina...
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shore is San Sebastián Bay. To the south the island is bounded by the BeagleChannel, south of which lie a series of islands included in Chilean territory...
is an expanse of seawater which forms a westward continuation of the BeagleChannel and links it to the Pacific Ocean at Londonderry Island and Stewart...
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Partial aerial view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean Navarino Island is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is seen at the bottom-left.
Beagle Channel, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
