Map of Chilean Patagonia (latitudes 47°S to 49°S). Wager Island forms the northwestern terminus of the Messier Channel, while the Larenas Peninsula forms the northeastern terminus.
Location of the commune of Tortel in Aysén Region, Chile
Wager Island (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990 miles) south of Santiago, the island is part of Capitán Prat Province of the Aysén Region, Chile. The island was the location of the Wager Mutiny, which took place in October 1741 after the wreck of the British warship HMS Wager.[2]
WagerIsland (Spanish: Isla Wager) is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres (990...
Wager Mutiny took place in 1741, after the British warship HMS Wager was wrecked on a desolate island off the south coast of present-day Chile. Wager...
career. First, he was in command of HMS Wager when it was wrecked in May 1741 on the shores of WagerIsland in Chilean Patagonia. Second was his capture...
1741, HMS Wager under Captain Cheap (as Captain Dandy Kidd had died), was shipwrecked on the coast of Chile on what is now called WagerIsland and Byron...
known as Sand Island Scilly Cay Scrub Island Seal Island Sombrero, also known as Hat Island South Cay South WagerIsland West Cay Anguilla is divided into...
Wellington Island and other Pacific islands and the continent. Maritime traffic traveling south from the Gulf of Penas passes between WagerIsland on the...
Admiral Sir Charles Wager PC (24 February 1666 – 24 May 1743) was an English Royal Navy officer and politician who served as First Lord of the Admiralty...
Chile. It consists of 2 main islands, WagerIsland (to the east), es:Isla Byron (to the west), and many smaller islands. It was heavily glaciated during...
in 1741, a storm caught the British ship, HMS Wager, causing it to wreck on (the eventual) WagerIsland, on the Guayaneco Archipelago. Some of the survivors...
isthmus of Ofqui. In 1741, the British warship HMS Wager ran aground along the coast of (future) WagerIsland, in the southeastern region of the Gulf, while...
Several islands in the Patagonic Archipelago, including WagerIsland, Prat Island, Serrano Island, Knorr Island, Wellington Island, Angamos Island, Madre...
Crozet Islands, the Prince Edward Islands, WagerIsland, the Bounty Islands, the Snares Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, the Antipodes Islands, and the...
Guar Island. Interest in the Chono lands arose again in the 1740s when the Spaniards learned about the wreck of the British warship HMS Wager on Wager Island...
Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described...
Trial by combat (also wager of battle, trial by battle or judicial duel) was a method of Germanic law to settle accusations in the absence of witnesses...
population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the most populous island of the country of...
United States 1966 Ran aground in Smyth Channel. HMS Wager Royal Navy 1741 Ran aground at WagerIsland. 47°40′43″S 75°02′57″W / 47.67861°S 75.04917°W...
Kugong Island, Tukarak Island, and Innetalling Island. Other main islands in the 1,500–island archipelago are Moore Island, Wiegand Island, Split Island, Snape...
Wager Glacier is a small, heavily crevassed glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It occupies a trench-like valley and flows east...
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