Sitting along the calm blue waters of Golfo Nuevo in Patagonia, Puerto Madryn somehow manages to be both rugged and strangely peaceful at the same time.
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Somewhere Between Wales and Antarctica
Saturday, May 2, 2026
Punta Arenas, Piece by Piece
Set along the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile, Punta Arenas was founded in 1848 after Chile moved its earlier settlement from Fort Bulnes farther north to a more practical location. Originally established as a penal colony and military outpost, the city’s purpose was strategic: to secure Chilean control over one of the world’s most important natural sea passages between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. That control later became internationally recognized in the 1881 boundary treaty with Argentina.
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