Punta Arenas

A GIFT FROM ALEJO CONTRERAS, THE MAN WHO HAS TRAVELED MOST TO THE SOUTH POLE

March 16, 2020

By surprise, and as if inadvertently, I receive from Punta Arenas a gift from the man who knows the South Pole best, the explorer who has traveled to the Pole most times, the Chilean Alejo Contreras. I had the pleasure…

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Fifty shades of Grey in Patagonia

February 6, 2017

The members of the Spanish expedition to Antarctica have spent thirty years travelling to the white continent and stopping at two points on the map: Ushuaia in Argentina and Punta Arenas in Chile, which by themselves are worth a visit….

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Tierra del Fuego channel

February 4, 2017

Day 92, Saturday, February 4th, 2017, Punta Arenas. On board the research vessel Hespérides.

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I am an island

January 3, 2017

Latest Chronicle from Tierra del Fuego: when these lines reach you, we will be sailing along Drake Passage, which by the way, the locals prefer to call “Mar de Hoces”. I say “locals,” but I include myself, because one cannot…

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Pack your bag for the worst day of your life

December 17, 2016

Day 42, Friday December 16th 2016, Admiralty Bay.

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The Strait of Magellan

December 5, 2016

For those of us who are not seafarers, it is indispensable to place the Strait of Magellan by its coordinates on a map to understand the geographical, historical and strategic importance of those waters, the very waters that we are…

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The flight of a butterfly in Kiev has an effect in the Antarctic

December 4, 2016

Day 30, Sunday, December 4th, 2016, Santa Bárbara, lat. 52º 25 S, Lon. 68º 47 W. It is 30 days today since the research vessel Sarmiento de Gamboa sailed from the port of Vigo in Spain heading to Antarctica.