''Picton Channel'' (Spanish: ''Canal Picton'') is a
waterway
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in the
Magallanes Region
The Magallanes Region (), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region () or Magallanes and the Chilean Antarctica Region in English, is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is the southernmost, largest, and sec ...
of
Chile
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that continues southward the
Ladrillero Channel, and it runs between the
Chipana Island (east) and
Mornington Island (Chile)
Mornington Island (Chile) is an island in the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, Chile.
See also
* List of islands of Chile
External links
Islands of Chile @ United Nations Environment ProgrammeWorld island information @ WorldIslandInf ...
(west).
With the Ladrillero and
Fallos Channel, it forms an optional route to the
Messier Channel
Messier Channel is a channel (geography), channel located in western Patagonia, Chile. It trends north–south between Wellington Island and other Pacific islands and the continent.
Maritime traffic traveling south from the Gulf of Penas passe ...
-
Grappler Channel-
Wide Channel. It has several arms or fjords.
The
United States Hydrographic Office
The United States Hydrographic Office (USHO) prepared and published maps, charts, and nautical books required in navigation.
The office was established by an act of 21 June 1866 as part of the Bureau of Navigation, Department of the Navy.
It wa ...
, South America Pilot (1916) states:
[https://archive.org/details/southamericapil01offigoog]
:''Picton Channel, with an average breadth of 1 miles, extends to the northward and westward for about 20 miles, with bold shores intersected by inlets on either side and deep water in mid-channel. Mornington Island, the western shore, then becomes low and dips gradually to the northward till it ends 36 miles from
Trinidad Channel in an extensive area of rocks, islets, and disconnected breakers, with no prominent islets fit for leading marks to guide a vessel through the channels to the sea.''
History
On 2 January 1916, not far from Golfo Ladrillero, the
Chilean ship ''Casma'' run aground at the shore of the Picton Channel.
See also
*
Picton Island located at the eastend of the
Beagle Channel
Beagle Channel (; Yahgan language, Yahgan: ''Onašaga'') is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina. The channel separates the larger main island of I ...
*
List of islands of Chile
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List of fjords, channels, sounds and straits of Chile
*
List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
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* Antarctic islands are, in the strict sense, the islands around mainland Antarctica, situated on the Antarctic Plate, and south of the Antarctic Convergence. According to the terms of the A ...
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List of lighthouses and lightvessels in Chile
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References
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Straits of Chile
Bodies of water of Magallanes Region