Sailing yacht Le Sourire Cruises - Expeditions Antarctica - South Georgia- Cape Horn Falkland Islands |
Sailing
cruises Tierra del Fuego - Cape Horn - Falkland Islands |
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Fireland is a huge archipelago with thousands of islands at the southern end of the South American continent. It is nowadays one of the rare easily accessible places approachable only by boat, where the sovereign Nature unveils beautiful and undamaged landscapes. |
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Sailing in Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn, cruises on board sailing yacht Le Sourire Fireland is shared between Chile and Argentina. On the map, only a few small inhabited centers can be seen. We'll leave them behind to try to imagine the former sailor's emotions on rounding Cape Horn, or to enter the fabulous labyrinth of islands, mountains and channels that Fireland offers. |
 Famille Shelk'nam Photographie Ch. Furlong 1908 |
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 Glaciar in the fjords - Fireland |
Landscapes Fireland is the end of the Andes range. It is a conjunction of desert patagonian plains, fjords entering between snowy mountains that emerge from the sea, barren vegetation of the Wollaston islands near Cape Horn and the dense forests bordering the twinkling glaciers in the channels. |
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Wildlife
Sea lions and dolphins swim around the boat under the wings of the albatross, petrels and shags. Walking ashore, condors and guanacos watch the hiker's steps approaching the beavers' dams.
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 Sea
lions - Fireland |
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 Cape Horn- Fireland |
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history Magellan discovered Fireland in 1520 while looking for a path westward to the route of the spices. Today, the Indians who then inhabited the plains, the forests and the coasts of Fireland have all disappeared, victims of the arrival of the white man: sealers, gold seekers, sheep breeders, missionaries and the first settlers. |
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