@anniebrassey.bsky.socialSunbeam #StraitofMagellan #Chile 12.10.1876. "...the blackest of the black clouds came suddenly down upon us, and descended upon the deck in a tremendous shower - not of rain, but of dust and ashes...Assuming the dust to be of volcanic origin, it must have travelled an immense distance..." #Brassey
@anniebrassey.bsky.socialSunbeam #StraitofMagellan #Chile 10.10.1876. "With Tarleton Pass on our right hand, and Childer's Pass on the left, we came in sight of Owen's Island, one extremity of which is called Mayne Head, and the other Cape Brassey, these places having all been so named by Captain Mayne..." #Brassey #1870s
@australdispatch.bsky.socialAt the edge of South America, Punta Arenas stands between history, maritime geography and Antarctic routes.
The Strait of Magellan remains one of the great southern corridors connecting Patagonia with the wider polar world.
@lorrainecaputo.bsky.socialSunrise over the #StraitOfMagellan. Punta Arenas, Chile. photo © Lorraine Caputo
21 September 1843, #Chile took possession of the Strait of Magellan.
INTO THE LAND OF FIRES
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