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The Beagle Channel (Onashaga): meeting place of oceans at the southernmost tip of the Americas
The Beagle Channel, known to the Yaghan people as Onashaga (“channel of the Ona hunters,” i.e., their Selk'nam neighbors from Tierra del Fuego), is one of the planet’s outstanding maritime passages. This interoceanic strait,...
Darwin Cordillera: Terra incognita of the southern Andes
The Darwin Cordillera represents one of the last wild frontiers of our planet, a mountain range of striking beauty yet formidable hostility, located at the far southwestern tip of Chilean Tierra del Fuego. On 12 February 1834, Captain Robert FitzRoy names a mountain...
Strait of Magellan : Legendary passage between the oceans
On 21 October 1520, five ships that had left Seville a year earlier entered an unknown channel. Thirty‑eight days later, they reached an ocean Europeans had never sailed before : the Strait of Magellan. Magellan named the passage Estrecho de Todos los Santos. Only...
Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve: an exceptional subantarctic sanctuary
The Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve (Cape Horn Nature Reserve), established in 2005, is one of the southernmost and largest protected areas in the world, covering more than 4,884,000 hectares of southern lands and waters. It contains unique terrestrial and marine...
What role does the new 20-meter sailboat play in enabling Karukinka’s activities?
The new vessel, Milagro, serves as a cornerstone for Karukinka’s operations. More than a means of transportation, this 20-meter steel ketch is a fully equipped, autonomous floating base that allows Karukinka to carry out ambitious scientific, artistic, and...
Root people: « Between 5 to 6 % of mankind is preserving 80 % of the planet’s biodiversity » (We Planet, 06/06/2024)
On the occasion of the Green Shift Festival, held from 5th to 7th June in Monaco, Jorge Quilaqueo, a Mapuche Chaman, exchanged with Sabah Rahmani, an anthropologist journalist, and Hélène Collongues, anthropologist specialising in the Jivaro people. 6th June 2024, by...