Glacier Alley #15 - a photo on Flickriver

Glacier Alley #15

            West of Ushuaia, Argentina, mountains with year around snow and glacier cover are nearly constantly visible from the Beagle Channel. In many cases the ice reaches the water. At this point both sides of the channel are within the boundaries of Chile.

This is a "tidewater glacier" in that it reaches the sea. The dark line is a medial moraine that is debris which it being carried by the glacier between the primary lobe of ice and a small second one.

"Beagle Channel is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina. The Beagle Channel, the Straits of Magellan to the north, and the open-ocean Drake Passage to the south are the three navigable passages around South America between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. 

The channel was named after the ship HMS Beagle during its first hydrographic survey of the coasts of the southern part of South America which lasted from 1826 to 1830. During that expedition, under the overall command of Commander Phillip Parker King, the Beagle's captain Pringle Stokes committed suicide and was replaced by captain Robert FitzRoy. The ship continued the survey in the second voyage of Beagle under the command of captain FitzRoy, who took Charles Darwin along as a self-funding supernumerary, giving him opportunities as an amateur naturalist. Darwin had his first sight of glaciers when they reached the channel on 29 January 1833, and wrote in his field notebook "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."

Taken in: Chile / Region of Magallanes / Provincia Antártica Chilena (show map)

Taken on: December 11, 2022

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tidewater glacier

medial moraine

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Sets appears in: • Beagle Channel / Ushauia • Glacier Alley

Camera: Canon PowerShot SX60 HS, f/5.6, 1/200 sec, 44.6mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/200)
Focal Length:	44.6mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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