Posts Tagged ‘beagle strait’
Through the Beagle–Like the West Coast of British Columbia…but not really
One of three navigable channels linking the South Pacific to the South Atlantic, the Beagle Channel earned it’s name from the passing of the HMS Beagle in 1833, carrying a relatively unknown naturalist named Charles Darwin. Given it’s relatively narrow attributes, most of the large ship traffic chooses the more southerly Drake Passage or northerly […]
Puerto Williams–The most southern inhabited town in the world (outside of Antarctica)
Bragging rights to the “World’s most…” is often a semantic debate, especially when discussing geographic locations or points of interest. Reaching for the most southern settlement is no different. Ushuaia claims itself as the most southern city in the world (pop. 57,000). The permanent Amundsen-Scott Station is the most southern inhabited location on earth, at […]
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