Our final port of call, Puerto Natales, is a small, quiet town of brightly painted corrugated tin houses situated on the calm waters of Canal Señoret fjord, an arm of the Ultima Esperanza (Last Hope) Sound. It was named in 1557 by the sailor Juan Ladrilleros who was looking for the Strait of Magellan and this was his last hope of finding it. 'Natalis' comes from the Latin term natalis meaning 'birth'. In 1830 a new British expedition on the frigate HMS Beagle sailed through these fjords and some of the places here are named after the expeditioners : Robert FitzRoy, William Skyring and James Kirke. The city was settled in 1911 by British, Germans, Croatians and Chileans from Chiloé, all attracted by the growing sheep industry. Nowadays, people here rely mainly on tourism because it's the base for exploring the magnificent Torres del Paine national park...the reason I've come.
Sunday 21 March 2010
Puerto Natales
Our final port of call, Puerto Natales, is a small, quiet town of brightly painted corrugated tin houses situated on the calm waters of Canal Señoret fjord, an arm of the Ultima Esperanza (Last Hope) Sound. It was named in 1557 by the sailor Juan Ladrilleros who was looking for the Strait of Magellan and this was his last hope of finding it. 'Natalis' comes from the Latin term natalis meaning 'birth'. In 1830 a new British expedition on the frigate HMS Beagle sailed through these fjords and some of the places here are named after the expeditioners : Robert FitzRoy, William Skyring and James Kirke. The city was settled in 1911 by British, Germans, Croatians and Chileans from Chiloé, all attracted by the growing sheep industry. Nowadays, people here rely mainly on tourism because it's the base for exploring the magnificent Torres del Paine national park...the reason I've come.
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