Britain’s Challenger expedition of 1872—76, as the…

Britain’s Challenger expedition of 1872—76, as the first true oceanographic cruise, has laid the groundwork for an entire academic and research discipline.

Most of January 1876 is spent navigating around the southern tip of South America, surveying and touching at many of the bays and islands of the Patagonian archipelago, the Strait of Magellan, and Tierra del Fuego.

Locations visited here include Hale Cove, Gray Harbour, Port Grappler, Tom Bay (all in the vicinity of Wellington Island), ...