Beagle Channel
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Beagle Channel

The Beagle Channel is a strait separating the main island of Tierra del Fuego from various other small islands. It is one of three navigable routes linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans at the southern tip of the South American continent. The Strait of Magellan is further north lying between Tierra del Fuego and mainland…

Antarctic Convergence

Antarctic Convergence

The southern parts of the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans are noted for their stormy conditions and, in the days of sail, certain southern latitudes were even given names such as the Roaring Forties or Furious Fifties and the early mariners knew how to use these winds to their best advantage. However, another well known…

Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The continent of Antarctica is one of the most forbidding places on Earth and, despite its enormity, it remains uninhabited other than by teams of scientists. Even wildlife is almost non-existent throughout much of the continent. However one part of Antarctica reaches northward like a huge finger pointing towards the southern tip of South America….

Deception Island

Deception Island

For the true adventurers, nothing compares to a visit to the Antarctic and there is one particular island with many secrets and a blood-stained past filled with the horrors of the whaling industry. Deception Island forms part of the South Shetland Islands archipelago and, at a latitude of 62 degrees 57 minutes south, these are…