Gulf of Penas information

The Gulf of Penas (Golfo de Penas in Spanish, meaning "gulf of distress") is a body of water located south of the Taitao Peninsula, Chile. It is open...

Bristol Bay Norton Sound Chilean Sea Gulf of Corcovado Gulf of Penas Moraleda Channel Reloncaví Sound Sea of Chiloé Gulf of Alaska Cook Inlet Glacier Bay Prince...

entering instead the Gulf of Penas after a brief land crossing at the isthmus of Ofqui. While attempting to pass the Gulf of Penas in 1741, a storm caught...

Strait of Magellan. Thus both groups overlapped in Gulf of Penas, Guayaneco Archipelago and other islands. Yaghans inhabited a reduced area south of Tierra...

number of invalids and marines. After becoming embayed in the Gulf of Penas just south of the Taitao Peninsula, Wager ran aground at what would become...

to the Gulf of Peñas. Hydrogaphic Office, Admiralty. pp. 37–84. Morris, Michael (July 27, 1989). The Strait of Magellan. International Straits of the World...

and Spanish of Chiloé for a group of canoe-faring people that inhabited the archipelagoes south of the Gulf of Penas. The term is one of the various ethnonyms...

coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The meridian 75° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean...

between the Gulf of Penas and Puerto Natales, near the southern tip of South America. They may have been sei whales. This is one of only two or three such...

a number of rivers. San Tadeo River is located in the Isthmus of Ofqui and flows into San Quintín Bay in the north part of the Gulf of Penas. Also there...

including between islands of the Chiloé Archipelago, through the Chacao Channel to mainland Chile, and along the coast of the Gulf of Penas.[citation needed]...

of Ofqui is a narrow isthmus that connects the Taitao Peninsula with the Chilean mainland. The isthmus is bounded in the south by the Gulf of Penas,...

islands and the continent. Maritime traffic traveling south from the Gulf of Penas passes between Wager Island on the west and the Larenas Peninsula on...

end, will, afford shelter to a number of large vessels. From Trinidad Channel vessels can gain the Gulf of Penas by Picton, Ladrillero and Fallos Channels...

to the crew, Wager had entered a large uncharted bay, now called the Gulf of Penas, and the land to the west was later to be called the Tres Montes Peninsula...

a species of porpoise endemic to the northern end of the Gulf of California in Baja California, Mexico. Reaching a maximum body length of 150 cm (4.9 ft)...

the fjords and channels of southern Chile. The island lies immediately to the east of the Gulf of Penas and south of the Gulf of San Esteban. Administratively...

reaching Port Otway in the Gulf of Penas on 31 December 1875. Most of January 1876 was spent navigating around the southern tip of South America, surveying...

part of this large estuary. It penetrates the mainland about 75 miles (121 km) and opens into Tarn Bay at the south-east corner of the Gulf of Penas. Merino...

Valparaiso, and five days later, Spee took the rest of the squadron south to St. Quentin Bay in the Gulf of Penas. On 18 November, Dresden and Leipzig met Spee...

subembayment of the larger Gulf of Penas and to the northwest it bounds the Bay of San Quintín. The Gulf of San Esteban lies southwest of Forelius Peninsula...

joins the Gulf of Penas. It has the great disadvantage of having no anchorage for large vessels near the entrance from that gulf, in case of meeting a...