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67 relations: Alberto de Agostini National Park, Almirantazgo Fjord, Antártica Chilena Province, Archipelago, Argentina, Atlantic Ocean, Beagle Channel, Berberis, Berberis microphylla, Camerón, Cami Lake, Cerro Sombrero, Channel (geography), Charles Darwin, Chile, Cordillera Darwin, Diego Ramírez Islands, Drimys winteri, English language, Epicenter, Ferdinand Magellan, Fjord, Fragaria chiloensis, HMS Beagle, Hoste Island, Inútil Bay, Isla de los Estados, Jemmy Button, Karukinka Natural Park, Krummholz, List of divided islands, List of islands by area, Magallanes Region, Magallanes-Fagnano Fault, Magellanic subpolar forests, Maytenus magellanica, Mercalli intensity scale, Moment magnitude scale, Mount Darwin (Andes), Navarino Island, Nothofagus, Nothofagus antarctica, Nothofagus betuloides, Nothofagus pumilio, Oceanic climate, Pilgerodendron, Porvenir, Chile, Provinces of Argentina, Punta Arenas, Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, ..., Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Regions of Chile, Richter magnitude scale, Robert FitzRoy, San Sebastián Bay, Semi-arid climate, South America, Steppe, Strait of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego, Tierra del Fuego gold rush, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile, Tolhuin, Ushuaia, Wollaston Islands, 1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquake. Expand index (17 more) »
Alberto de Agostini National Park
Alberto de Agostini National Park is a protected area that was created on January 22, 1965, on land that was formerly part of the "Hollanda" forest reserve and "Hernando de Magallanes National Park".
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Almirantazgo Fjord
Almirantazgo Fjord (Fiordo Almirantazgo), also known as Almirantazgo Sound (Seno Almirantazgo) or Admiralty Sound, is a Chilean fjord located in the far south of the country at.
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Antártica Chilena Province
Antártica Chilena Province (Provincia de la Antártica Chilena) is the southernmost and one of four provinces in Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region (XII).
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic (República Argentina), is a federal republic located mostly in the southern half of South America.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Beagle Channel
Partial aerial view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean Navarino Island is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is seen at the bottom-left. Beagle Channel is a strait in Tierra del Fuego Archipelago on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina.
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Berberis
Berberis, commonly known as barberry, is a large genus of deciduous and evergreen shrubs from tall, found throughout temperate and subtropical regions of the world (apart from Australia).
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Berberis microphylla
Berberis microphylla, common name box-leaved barberry and Magellan barberry, in Spanish calafate and michay and other names, is an evergreen shrub, with simple, shiny box-like leaves.
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Camerón
Villa Cameron is a hamlet (aldea) in southern Tierra del Fuego Island, and is the head of Timaukel commune, in Magallanes Region.
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Cami Lake
Fagnano Lake (Lago Fagnano), also called Lake Cami, is a lake located on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, and shared by Argentina and Chile.
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Cerro Sombrero
Cerro Sombrero (Spanish for "Hat Hill") is a village (aldea) in southern Chile.
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Channel (geography)
In physical geography, a channel is a type of landform consisting of the outline of a path of relatively shallow and narrow body of fluid, most commonly the confine of a river, river delta or strait.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Cordillera Darwin
The Cordillera Darwin is an extensive mountain range mantled by an ice field that is located in Chile.
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Diego Ramírez Islands
The Diego Ramírez Islands (Islas Diego Ramírez) are a small group of islands located in the southernmost extreme of Chile.
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Drimys winteri
Drimys winteri (Winter's bark or canelo) is a slender tree, growing up to tall.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Epicenter
The epicenter, epicentre or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan (or; Fernão de Magalhães,; Fernando de Magallanes,; c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
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Fjord
Geologically, a fjord or fiord is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier.
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Fragaria chiloensis
Fragaria chiloensis, the beach strawberry, Chilean strawberry, or coastal strawberry, is one of two species of wild strawberry that were hybridized to create the modern garden strawberry (F. × ananassa).
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HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, one of more than 100 ships of this class.
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Hoste Island
Hoste Island is one of the southernmost islands in Chile, lying south, across the Beagle Channel, from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and west of Navarino Island, from which it is separated by the Murray Channel.
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Inútil Bay
Satellite image of Inútil Bay and the Strait of Magellan. Selected settlements are marked with yellow dots. Inútil Bay (Spanish: Bahía Inútil) or Useless Bay is a bay in the western and Chilean part of Tierra del Fuego Island.
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Isla de los Estados
Isla de los Estados (English: Staten Island, from the Dutch Stateneiland) is an Argentine island that lies off the eastern extremity of the Argentine portion of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is separated by the Le Maire Strait.
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Jemmy Button
Orundellico, known as "Jeremy Button" or "Jemmy Button" (c. 1815–1864), was a native Fuegian of the Yaghan (or Yámana) people from islands around Tierra del Fuego, in modern Chile and Argentina.
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Karukinka Natural Park
Karukinka Natural Park is a private natural park located in the Chilean portion of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.
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Krummholz
Krummholz or krumholtz (German: krumm, "crooked, bent, twisted" and Holz, "wood") — also called knieholz ("knee timber") — is a type of stunted, deformed vegetation encountered in subarctic and subalpine tree line landscapes, shaped by continual exposure to fierce, freezing winds.
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List of divided islands
This is a list of islands whose land is divided by one or more international borders.
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List of islands by area
This list of islands by area includes all islands in the world greater than and several other islands over, sorted in descending order by area.
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Magallanes Region
The Region of Magallanes, officially the XII Region of Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.
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Magallanes-Fagnano Fault
The Magallanes–Fagnano Fault is a continental transform fault.
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Magellanic subpolar forests
The Magellanic subpolar forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina, and are part of the Neotropic ecozone.
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Maytenus magellanica
Maytenus magellanica (Magellan's mayten) (hard log mayten; leña dura in Spanish) is a small evergreen tree from the genus Maytenus, up to 5 meters (16 ft), in the Celastraceae.
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Mercalli intensity scale
The Mercalli intensity scale is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake.
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Moment magnitude scale
The moment magnitude scale (MMS; denoted as Mw or M) is one of many seismic magnitude scales used to measure the size of earthquakes.
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Mount Darwin (Andes)
Mount Darwin is a peak in Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego forming part of the Cordillera Darwin, the southernmost range of the Andes, just to the north of the Beagle Channel.
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Navarino Island
Navarino Island is a Chilean island located between Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, to the north, and Cape Horn, to the south.
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Nothofagus
Nothofagus, also known as the southern beeches, is a genus of 43 species of trees and shrubs native to the Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east and southeast Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia).
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Nothofagus antarctica
Nothofagus antarctica (Antarctic Beech; in Spanish Ñire or Ñirre) is a deciduous tree or shrub native to southern Chile and Argentina from about 36°S to Tierra del Fuego (56° S), where it grows mainly in the diminishing temperate rainforest.
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Nothofagus betuloides
Nothofagus betuloides, Magellan's beech or guindo, is native to southern Patagonia.
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Nothofagus pumilio
Nothofagus pumilio (lenga beech in Mapuche language) is a deciduous tree or shrub in the Nothofagaceae family that is native to the southern Andes range, in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego, from 35° to 56° South latitude.
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Oceanic climate
An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.
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Pilgerodendron
Pilgerodendron is a genus of conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Porvenir, Chile
Porvenir is the capital of both the homonymous commune and the Chilean Province of Tierra del Fuego of the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region.
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Provinces of Argentina
Argentina is subdivided into twenty-three provinces (provincias, singular provincia) and one autonomous city (ciudad autónoma), Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation (Capital Federal) as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system.
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Punta Arenas
Punta Arenas (historically Sandy Point in English) is the capital city of Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena.
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Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz
Río Gallegos is the capital and largest settlement of the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz in Argentina.
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Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego
Río Grande is a city in Argentina, on the north coast of the eastern part of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego.
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Regions of Chile
Chile is divided into 15 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), which are the country's first-level administrative division.
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Richter magnitude scale
The so-called Richter magnitude scale – more accurately, Richter's magnitude scale, or just Richter magnitude – for measuring the strength ("size") of earthquakes refers to the original "magnitude scale" developed by Charles F. Richter and presented in his landmark 1935 paper, and later revised and renamed the Local magnitude scale, denoted as "ML" or "ML".
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Robert FitzRoy
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was an English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist.
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San Sebastián Bay
San Sebastián Bay is located in the northern coast of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego Province.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe (p) is an ecoregion, in the montane grasslands and shrublands and temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands biomes, characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.
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Strait of Magellan
The Strait of Magellan, also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south.
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Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.
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Tierra del Fuego gold rush
Between 1883 and 1906 Tierra del Fuego experienced a gold rush attracting a large number of Chileans, Argentines and Europeans to the archipelago, including a large number of Dalmatians.
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Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire";; officially Provincia de Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur) is an Argentine province.
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Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile
Tierra del Fuego Province (Provincia de Tierra del Fuego) is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena (XII).
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Tolhuin
Tolhuin is a town in the province of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.
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Ushuaia
Ushuaia is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina.
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Wollaston Islands
The Wollaston Islands are a group of islands in Chile south of Navarino Island and north of Cape Horn and east of the Hoste Island.
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1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquake
The 1949 Tierra del Fuego earthquake occurred on the island of Tierra del Fuego on 17 December at 06:53:30.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_Grande_de_Tierra_del_Fuego
