Shortly after, a stronger 7.5-magnitude quake hit Puerto Williams, followed by a 6.1 aftershock in the Strait of Magellan. Chilean authorities later downgraded the tsunami alert but suspended ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...