by Karukinka | Aug 15, 2024 | Sailing trips, Blue Water Sailing, Patagonian Channels
Hello everyone !
You may have noticed, the sailing program for the 2024-2025 season is online. With coastal and offshore sailings in northern and southern hemispheres, there is something for everyone!
Milagro is currently in Ireland and Scotland for coastal training courses departing from Dublin until mid-September, then she will be the turn of offshore sailings with two round trips between Dublin and Loire Atlantique (Brittany) in September and October, before heading south, to Patagonia, the end of the world to which Karukinka Association has been dedicated since its beginnings.
Karukinka is the name of Tierra del Fuego in Selk’nam, a people living between the south of the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel. Some studies indicate that it also means “the last land of people” which in the history of migrations makes perfect sense since it is the last land reached on foot in the history of human migrations.
We will therefore return this year to the Patagonian channels of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve to complete Lauriane’s work as part of the “North Cape – Cape Horn” project started in 2022. We also offer four 18-day sailing trips from Ushuaia or Puerto Williams between February and April 2025 to explore together these islands, fjords, mountains and glaciers as beautiful as they are exciting.
And before that, between October 2024 and January 2025, we offer you a series of blue water sailing courses during the more than 7000mn that make up this trip, with beautiful stopovers in perspective: Brittany – Canaries (14 days), Canaries – Cape Verde (9 days), transatlantic Cape Verde – Brazil (20 days), Brazil – Argentina (15 days) and Buenos Aires – Tierra del Fuego (21 days).
For a few weeks now it has been possible to book our courses directly online via the HelloAsso platform (only available in French at the moment) and all the dates are indicated on the course pages, with a summary of the prices and conditions in the “Booking request” tab. For any questions we can also be reached by email (contact@karukinka.eu) telephone and WhatsApp messaging (+33 6 72 83 03 94).
Looking forward to sailing together “here”, “there” or “over there”, we are still counting on you to share this program and our adventures, to create great teams on board!
Damien
PS: we plan to careen Milagro in La Turballe in the second half of September: notice to those who would like to give us a hand!
by Karukinka | Aug 7, 2015 | Indigenous peoples, Scientific news, Yagan/Yamana
As part of its birthday’s activities, the Magallanes University organized a grateful tribute to the last yagan speaker, Cristina Calderón. Photograph of Luisa Villablanca
For the 53rd birthday of the Magallanes University(UMAG), the regional department of high studies rendered this thursday a rightful homage to Cristina Calderón, National Living Treasure of yagán people, and representative of the « canoera » culture (nomadic people of the south Magellan Strait channels) of the extreme south of Chile.
The ceremony took place on the Patagonian Institute, and conducted by the rector of the UMAG, Juan Oyarzo, accompanied by the Intendant of Magallanes y Antártica Chilena, Jorge Flies.
The highest regional authority congratulate the university for this “rightful tribute” attributed to Cristina Calderón. “It is in fact what we have to do as a community. We are lucky to have Cristina with us. We are really pleased that she has been able to come with her daughter and has been able to receive our displays of affection. We all agree that this tribute we rendered is important to her, recognized National Living Treasure by the UNESCO.”, the intendant Flies stated.
The chief of the Regional Government considers as a real gift to give Cristina Calderon the possibility to express herself in her’s mother tongue. In this sense, and to preserve the yagán language, Flies announced that he had started to solicit the linguist Oscar Aguilera, that who realised great works about the kawésqar language, to make, with Calderon, a similar work for the benefit of the safeguarding of this language.
For his part, the UMAG rector, Juan Oyarzo, got very emotional at the end of the ceremony. “I’m very touched to have had the opportunity to lead this event and to have been able to say a few words to “la abuela” Cristina this afternoon”, Oyarzo said and added “It’s good to pay these tributes as long as she’s alive. But we also have a sense of guilt from an era in which people were blind to the consequences of their acts against Yagan people. We are now seeing the impacts : an ethnic group and a language are at the point of disappearing”.
“I am full of emotion because, although late in coming, we have reached to pay this tribute,but especially because we are an inclusive university that pretend to link all localities like Puerto Williams, Puerto Natales and Porvenir, where we also have university centres.”, the rector commented. He announced that he committed himself, as an academic, to support the intentions of a Cristina’s niece, also present to this tribute and who whishes to study the Pedagogy in Early Education.
The authorities undertake to ensure the governance of the possibility, for Cristina Calderón, to teach her language and thus to preserve and diffuse a part of her culture with the rest of the Magellanic community.
From Prensa Antartica Chilena (https://prensaantartica.wordpress.com/2014/10/24/emotivo-homenaje-entrego-la-universidad-de-magallanes-a-tesoro-humano-vivo-del-pueblo-yagan/)
