This is the south flank of glaciated Cordillera Darwin and Bahia Pia (Pia Bay), highest point on Tierra del Fuego, Chile, taken from the Beagle Channel. These peaks and fjords were named after ...

Joseph circumnavigates the tip of South America on an expedition passenger ship. Joseph circumnavigates the tip of South America sailing through Tierra del Fuego and around Cape Horn on Travelscope’s ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is from some Miocene sedimentary rocks exposed along the Atlantic coast of Tierra del Fuego. The bottom part, from base of visible section to just above the top of the ...

Mythologized by Magellan, Darwin, and Bruce Chatwin, among others, the barren grasslands, wild rivers, and towering glaciers of Tierra del Fuego represent some of the planet’s most unforgiving and ...

One of the goals of the Beagle voyage is to establish a Christian mission on Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America. The Beagle's other goal here is to chart the complex coastline -- ...