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3 unusual facts about Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region


Hebe elliptica

Hebe elliptica is a plant of the family Plantaginaceae, which is endemic to New Zealand, Aisen and Magallanes in Chile, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falkland Islands.

Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region

From the late 18th century to the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914, thousands of trans-oceanic voyages stopped by Punta Arenas as the most convenient strait between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

McDonald Ice Rumples

It was named "Allan McDonald Glacier" after Allan McDonald of the British Association of Magallanes at Punta Arenas, who was chiefly responsible for raising funds for sending the schooner Emma on the third attempt, in July 1916, to rescue the 22 men of the Endurance left on Elephant Island.


Manuel Rodriguez Island

Manuel Rodríguez Island (Spanish: Isla Manuel Rodríguez) is an island in the Queen Adelaide Archipelago in Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, Chile.


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