Eberhard Fjord is an arm of

Seno Ultima Esperanza Seno, Séno or Senó may refer to: Places * Seno, Aragon, a town in Spain * Seno, Laos * Séno Province, Burkina Faso * Seno Skyring, an inland sound in Chile * Seno Station, Hiroshima, Japan People with the surname * Frank Seno (1921–1974 ...

in the

Patagonia Patagonia () is a geographical region that includes parts of Argentina and Chile at the southern end of South America. The region includes the southern section of the Andes mountain chain with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers ...

n region of

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

. This surface water body was named after

Hermann Eberhard Hermann Eberhard (27 February 1852 in Ohlau, Silesia – 30 May 1908) was a 19th-century German explorer credited with western discovery of considerable lands in Patagonia, Chile. Eberhard journeyed by boat up the Última Esperanza Sound to invest ...

, the first

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an to explore this region. Eberhard used the fjord to find the Cueva del Milodón, where he discovered remains of the

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;

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recovery of evidence of

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man was also found at this cave complex.C.M. Hogan, 2008 Geologically this fjord is within the

Magallanes Basin The Magallanes Basin or Austral Basin is a major sedimentary basin in southern Patagonia. The basin covers a surface of about and has a NNW-SSE oriented shape. The basin is bounded to the west by the Andes mountains and is separated from the Mal ...

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* Ben Box (2004) ''

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'' 2004 Published by Footprint Travel Guides, 1584 pages , * C. Michael Hogan, ''Cueva del Milodon'', Megalithic Portal, 13 April 200

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Fjords of Chile Bodies of water of Magallanes Region Última Esperanza Province {{MagellanAntarctic-geo-stub

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