Megellanic Penguins

Patagonia - The Wild and Windy Land

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April 13th 2007
Patagonia is an enormous, mostly treeless plateau covering all of southern Argentina and nearly 20%!o(MISSING)f Chile’s total area. It is beautiful and bleak, with stark mountains, fast moving glaciers and an open steppe that is blasted by a relentless dry wind that continually blows from the west. In fact, Patagonia is our new definition of windy. Here we have had howling water laden winds dre ... read more

South America » Chile » Magallanes

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Prior to the coming of the Spanish in the 16th century, northern Chile was under Inca rule while Araucanian Indians inhabited central and southern Chile; the latter were not completely subjugated until the early 1880s. Although Chile declared its ind... ... read more