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CABO DE HORNOS AND CANAL BEAGLE

Between the Beagle Channel and Cape Horn there are several islands and archipelagos, fiords and smaller channels, which are part of the very last corners of the Chilean teritory. The Beagle Channel was named after the ship in which the famous scientist Charles Darwin travelled around the world and passed through the Magellan's strip, a hundred and fifty years ago. Cape Horn is the last place of the continent, which are, especifically, islands, all protected by laws when the Cape Horn National Park was created.
In this area you can find the Navarino Island, the biggest island on this sector, where Puerto Williams was settled, the capital and biggest city of the Chilean Antarctica province. There you can practice trekking, visit the museum in Puerto Williams, and go to travel agencies for the chance of visiting the Antarctica.
Finally, you find the Darwin Mountain Chain, the last outline of the Andes, which appears completely segregated here, where it 'dies'. The Darwin runs from east to west alongside the Beagle Channel northern border. Its mountains have milennary ice shapes, which fall down into the fiords, creating small stations for ships, which must stop there in front of the big walls of ice.