Channel of Darwin
See also: Darwin
The channel of Darwin is the Western prolongation of the Canal Beagle and to the Pacific Ocean connects it. Together, they form an inland waterway through the Ground of Fire between the oceans Pacifique and Atlantique, alternate with that of the Cape Horn.
The name of channel of Darwin (in English Darwin Sound ) was decreed to him during the Voyage of the Beagle by the captain of the '' HMS Beagle '', Robert FitzRoy, because of an event which occurred in the Canal Beagle. In order to carry out their hydrographic measurements, the boats of the ship were often used at a long distance from this one. In the channel Beagle, they observed with astonishment the Glacier S of the northern coast, located on the strong slopes of the Andes cordillera, and which formed Iceberg S while being thrown in water. One day, with the beginning of the year 1833, they had drawn their boats on the beach with approximately 1 km from the ship and were dining when an enormous mass of ice fell from the glacier in water in a " noise of tonnerre". Grosses Vague S were formed and threatened the boats. Darwin was the first to be reacted. It ran on bank with other men and they drew the boats in safety right at the time when the first wave arrived on the beach, thus putting them in danger. The FitzRoy captain was impressed and the next day baptized a stretch of water close channel to Darwin ( Darwin Sound ). Darwin declared that it had acted under the blow of the fear rather than by bravery, noting in his newspaper, than if they had lost the boats, " their position hazardous, had been surrounded… by hostile and deprived savages of… provisions".
The most peak in the north of the channel was named Mont Darwin by FitzRoy to celebrate the 25e birthday of Darwin the February 12th 1834.
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