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Southern South America
First part of cruise was in what they call the Chilean Fjords, up to Pueroto Arenas, Chile, and then back to Peurto Williams, out the east end of the Beagle Channel, past Cape Horn, and south toward the Antarctic Pennisula.
The first part of the trip was called Crusing the Chilean Fjords (this was a Norwegian ship, so the word "fjords" remnds them of home, I guess).
There's a lot on this map. We sailed west from Ushuaia, then out the west end of the north branch of the Beagle Channel, they through several channels and straits (between high often-snow-covered mountains) to eventually enter the Strait of Magellan, docking at Punto Arenas, in Chile. After a day there, stopped at Magdelena Island. Then went south in the Whiteside Channel around the east side of Dawson Island, eventually getting back to re-trace our original course thru the Cockburn Channel (and other waterways) to essentialy sail the entire Beagle Channel (or, at the least the north branch of it). Backtracking through the Cockburn and Beagle Channels wasn't like a re-run because we had gone thru at ngiht the first time.
Some other things about this map: (1) Southern Chile is a very complicated jigsaw puzzle of odd-shaped, rugged mountain islands; (2) Cape Horn is NOT where I thought it was (it's an island south of what I think of as the:mainland" of South American, NOT -- as I had previously thought -- that "pointy" island on the extreme right-hand edge of this map); and (3) the red dot (which basically covers the island of Cape Horn on this map) is to mark a place where a landing was planed, but cancelled due to bad weather (which, in turn, caused high seas).
The word "mainland" is used (in quotes) above. However, having been there now, I'm not sure where "mainland South America" actually ends. There are a LOT of islands down there.
The following web site provides a somewhat better map of this region (without the Fram's couse marked on it): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chile.estrechodemagallanes.png.
