The Ladrillero Channel is a strait between

Angamos Island Angamos Island (Spanish: ''Isla Angamos'') is an island in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region, Chile located between Ladrillero, Machado Machado is a surname of Portuguese origin meaning the word "axe" or "hatchet" dating back to appro ...

and Stosch Island in the

Magallanes Region The Magallanes Region (), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region ( es, Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is the southernmost, largest, and second lea ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

. It forms, with the Picton Channel and the

Fallos Channel ''Fallos Channel'' (Spanish: ''Canal Fallos'') is a waterway in the Aisen Region of Chile that runs north of Ladrillero Channel between the Little Wellington Island and Prat Island at the east and Campana Island at the west. It forms with the ...

, an optional route to the

Messier Channel Messier Channel is a channel located in Patagonia, Chile. It trends north–south between Wellington Island and other Pacific islands and the continent, and is bounded on the north by the Gulf of Penas. Southward the name of this inside passage ...

- Grappler Channel-

Wide Channel Wide Channel is an inside passage of the Chilean Patagonia. It is long, extending northward from the junction of Concepción Channel and Trinidad Channel, to Saumarez Island. The channel is located at .Earth Info, ''earth-info.nga.mil'' webpage: ...

. It has several arms or fiords. The channel is named after

Juan Ladrillero Juan Ladrillero (b. c. 1490 in Moguer – 1559) was a 16th-century Spanish navigator and explorer who from 1557 to 1559 explored the coast of Chile from Valdivia (39° 48’ S) to the Barbara Channel (54° S, between Clarence Island and Santa ...

, a Spanish explorer of the southern coast of Chile in the 16th century. In the ''South America Pilot'', it is still called Stosch Channel.

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