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Chile : Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena

8.6 km (5.3 miles) SW of Punta Hillock (Cape), Isla Dawson, Magallanes y Antártica, Chile
Approx. altitude: 0 m (0 ft)
([?] maps: Google MapQuest OpenStreetMap ConfluenceNavigator)
Antipode: 54°N 109°E

Accuracy: 4 m (13 ft)
Quality: good

Click on any of the images for the full-sized picture.

#2: Cruise ship Mare Australis docked in Ushuaia, Argentina #3: Navigation chart showing the originally plotted course passing a few hundred metres west of the confluence #4: Left to right: Oscar Retamal, Targ Parsons and Captain Juan Reimann #5: Oscar standing on the bridge #6: Targ steering the ship! #7: GPS

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  54°S 71°W (visit #3) (secondary, incomplete) 

#1: Radar view: Cape Froward to the northwest, Dawson Island to the east, and Captain Aracena Island to the southwest

(visited by Targ Parsons, Nod Parsons, Jennifer Parsons and Oscar Retamal)

05-Nov-2004 -- At the commencement of a month-long holiday in Chile and Argentina with my father Nod and his wife Jennifer, we took a cruise on the Mare Australis from Ushuaia in Argentina to Punta Arenas in Chile. I noticed that our course would take us within a few hundred metres of this confluence in the Strait of Magellan, so I had a quiet word with Captain Juan Reimann to see if it would be possible to deviate slightly and sail right over it. He readily agreed.

As we drew near to the confluence, I went up to the bridge where ship's mate Oscar Retamal, who had the helm, was waiting for me. Everything went according to plan, and we sailed right over the confluence. I managed to snap a photo of the ship's GPS at the precise moment we crossed the 54th parallel.

The only trouble was, it was already after 10 p.m. and pitch black outside, making photos of the surrounding views impossible. The radar revealed that, had it been daylight, we would have seen: to the northeast Cape Froward on Brunswick Peninsula (the southernmost tip of continental South America), to the east Dawson Island, and to the southwest Captain Aracena Island.


 All pictures
#1: Radar view: Cape Froward to the northwest, Dawson Island to the east, and Captain Aracena Island to the southwest
#2: Cruise ship Mare Australis docked in Ushuaia, Argentina
#3: Navigation chart showing the originally plotted course passing a few hundred metres west of the confluence
#4: Left to right: Oscar Retamal, Targ Parsons and Captain Juan Reimann
#5: Oscar standing on the bridge
#6: Targ steering the ship!
#7: GPS
ALL: All pictures on one page
  Notes
In the Estrecho de Magallanes (Magellan Strait), with a good view of land all around.