South America Pilot: Volume I-III ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 - Pilot guides |
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12 fathoms 13 miles anchor anchorage Bank beacon Beagle Channel bearing berth bottom buoy Cape Froward Cape Pillar Cape Possession Channel chart cliffs coast Cove dangers Dawson Island deep depth direction distance easterly eastern entrance eastward entering entrance point extends extremity Falkland fathoms fathoms water feet above high feet high full and change gales Gulf of Penas Harbor head high water hills holding ground Inlet Island islets kelp patch land latitude lies low water Magdalena Island Magellan Strait marked by kelp Messier Channel mid-channel mile wide miles long miles northward miles northwestward miles westward Moraleda Channel narrow navigation northeastern northern shore pass passage peaks Peninsula Port Punta Arenas range reef rocks rocky sand sheltered shoal small vessels Sound southeastward southern entrance southern point southern side southward springs rise steep-to steer tidal currents tide Tierra del Fuego ward West Falkland western shore western side