AN ancient map of Tierra del Fuego, with ships, penguins, and dolphins, lines one cover of Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan; a map by the author, decorated in characteristic humor ...

This area is the renowned Strait of Magellan, which connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. It is named for Magellan, as he is considered the first European to have sailed through it in ...

The first landing, after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, takes us to Ainsworth Bay, a beach whose waters are fed by the Marinelli Glacier, discovered in 1904 by the Salesian missionary ...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan, a writer sets off in his grandfather’s wake to the deadly Cape Horn headland. When I was a child, my grandfather ...

When the weather improved, Magellan set sail again. On Oct. 21, 1520, he finally found the passageway that would come to bear his name. The Strait of Magellan is a curvy, narrow channel that ...

Divers and robots descended into the icy waters of the Strait of Magellan and photographed the presence of red hydrocorals from a depth of 1.3 meters down to 47 meters, it was also explained.

If you ask most people to name the first person to circumnavigate the globe, they will likely answer Ferdinand Magellan ... probing for a rumored strait through the continent.

Magellan was convinced that by sailing west instead of east and going through a rumored strait through South America, he could map a new route to Indonesia and India. So he abandoned his ...

Chilean researchers have detected a naturally-occurring crude oil leak along the Strait of Magellan in far-southern South America thanks to sensors mounted on a ferry. Ricardo Giesecke ...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Strait of Magellan, a writer sets off in his grandfather’s wake to the deadly Cape Horn headland. When I was a child, my grandfather ...