Wednesday, February 2, 2022 – Photo of the Day – Beagle Channel Glacier Alley

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Beagle Channel is a 150 milelong strait in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in the southern tip of South America. The channel is named after the voyage made by HMS Beagle, with the Naturalist, Charles Darwin on his way to the Galapagos Islands. Glacier Alley is a short stretch of Beagle Channel that showcases five tidewater glaciers named after European countries: Germany, Holland, France, Italy, and Spain. These massive blue glaciers inch down the Darwin Mountains from Southern Patagonia’s Darwin Icefield. The Darwin Icefield covers 2,500 sq km of Isla Grande, the largest island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

“As we proceeded along the Beagle Channel, the scenery assumed a peculiar and very magnificent character…The mountains were here about 3,000 feet high and terminated in sharp and jagged points. They rose in one unbroken sweep from the water’s edge and were covered to the height of fourteen or fifteen hundred feet by the dusky-coloured forest.”

“It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow.” – Charles Darwin, 29 January 1833.