Cordillera Darwin

The Cordillera Darwin is an assembly line still ignored located at the Chile, on a peninsula in the West of the Grande island of the Earth of Fire. It represents the mountainous cord most southern of the Andes cordillera.

Geography

It is located between 54°15' and 54°50' Southern latitude and 69°15' and 71°30' of Western longitude. It is a strip of land 60 kilometers broad for 170 length mainly occupied by a glacial field of more than: 2300 km ² is approximately the same surface as the whole of the glaciers of the Alps. Its culminating point is the Shipton Mount, named Mont Darwin until 2003, whose altitude is not known with precision but commonly given to: 2469 Mr.

It is surrounded by sea: skirted to north by the Almirantazgo channel - connected to the Magellan Strait -, in the South by the Channel Beagle, it finishes in the West by the Cockburn channel and the Pacific Ocean. Only its East part is connected to the ground, near to the border with the Argentine. The city nearest is Ushuaia, in Argentina. However it is impossible to go in the mountains from this city by terrestrial way, because of a particularly difficult ground and frontier problems.

History

After the discovery of the Magellan Strait in 1520 and channel of Beagle in 1830, the first true terrestrial explorer of this cordillera, at the beginning 20th century is the father Alberto Agostini (Italy). It was however confined with the easily accessible parts, the East and the West, as will do it the majority of the explorers after him.

In 1962, Eric Shipton (the U.K.) accompanied by three Chilean climbs the highest top which will become, in 2004, the Shipton Mount. That remains it to date only forwarding confirmed to have rejoined this peak. The first crossing of the central zone of the mountains, hitherto unexplored, was carried out as a recluse by the explorer free-Switzerland Christian Clot in autumn 2006, after several unfruitful attempts.

External bond

modern Exploration of Cordillera Darwin

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