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Montevideo, May 30th 2025 - 06:42 UTC

Tag: Puerto Williams

  • Friday, May 2nd 2025 - 19:07 UTC

    No injuries or damages reported as strong quake hits Strait of Magellan region

    Some 1,100 people were evacuated in Puerto Williams

    A 7.4-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck the Drake Passage Friday, triggering a tsunami warning for Chile's Magallanes region and Antarctic Territory. Chile and neighboring Argentina carried out preventive evacuations, relocating thousands from coastal areas. Shortly after, a stronger 7.5-magnitude quake hit Puerto Williams, followed by a 6.1 aftershock in the Strait of Magellan. Chilean authorities later downgraded the tsunami alert but suspended maritime activities. No injuries or damages were reported, and both countries continue to monitor the situation, urging residents to remain in safe zones.

  • Monday, April 7th 2025 - 09:50 UTC

    Puerto Williams, extreme south Chile also improving infrastructure for the cruise industry

    Although the dock has not yet been inaugurated, (waiting for the second stage), more than 30 cruise vessels have already used the structure this year

    Puerto Williams on the island of Navarino, extreme south of Chile, sitting on the Beagle Channel is improving its infrastructure with the construction of the new multipurpose dock designed to accommodate calls from the growing cruise industry operating in the area.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Luxury hotel in Puerto Williams to enhance Antarctic travel

    Puerto Williams is a key starting point for Antarctic expeditions

    Cruise industry giants Silversea announced this week its plans to build a luxury hotel in the Chilean town of Puerto Williams to revolutionize Antarctic tourism. The 150-room complex “will allow us to offer an unparalleled Antarctic expedition that further enhances our world-class vacation portfolio,” Royal Caribbean Group CEO Jason Liberty said.

  • Thursday, June 8th 2023 - 14:49 UTC

    Punta Arenas optimistic about the 2023/24 cruise season

    Punta Arenas terminal said that between 180 and 190 cruise calls are expected for the 2023/24 season, involving some 90,000 passengers

    Port authorities from Punta Arenas in the extreme south Chile, have revealed what they are expecting for the coming cruise season, following a 2022/23 season considered acceptable, although with a lesser number of passengers.

  • Saturday, September 24th 2022 - 07:43 UTC

    Royal Caribbean and DAP plan to promote Antarctica cruises from Puerto Williams in the Navarino island

    Silver Explorer operated last season from Puerto Williams

    A large boost for the cruise industry in Chile, according to the leading newspaper of the country, El Mercurio. Royal Caribbean and Punta Arenas airline DAP are planning to invest some 18 million dollars in the construction of a five-star hotel in Puerto Williams, a small town on Chilean territory, Navarino island, across from Argentina's Ushuaia.

  • Saturday, September 10th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

    Aerovías DAP to up flights to Antarctica by 30%

    DAP's British Aerospace 146-200 is the main performer of the company's operations in the region

    The Punta Arena-based Chilean carrier Aerovías DAP plans to operate over 150 flights to Antarctica between November 2022 and March of 2023, an increase of 30% over last summer, it was announced.

  • Wednesday, July 27th 2022 - 09:15 UTC

    Top class Antarctica cruises in the three SilverSea Cruises

    Silversea is the only cruise line currently offering Antarctica expeditions from Puerto Williams, and the only operating a private charter flight between Santiago and Puerto Williams.

    SilverSea Cruises has announced an improved package for passengers travelling in any of its three ice-class expedition ships, Silver Cloud, Silver Wind and Silver Explorer. To start with, the Antarctica cruises they will embark and disembark in Puerto Williams for the 2022-2023 season.

  • Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

    Which is the world's most southern city?

    Puerto Williams, mostly a port and naval base with less than 3,000 population

    Which is the world's most southern city? Or which is the city closest to Antarctica. Somewhere in the southern tip of South America, be it Argentina or Chile. And the usual answer is Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, which Argentines recognize as the gate to Antarctica.

  • Monday, November 29th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

    Chile planning an optical fiber cable from Puerto Williams to Antarctica

    The cable “reaffirms Chile's leadership in the continent and our efforts to place it at the heart of communications for the interests of science,” said Minister Hutt

    The regional government of Magallanes extreme south of Chile signed an agreement with the Telecommunications ministry and Country Development Secretariat to study the feasibility of an optical fiber from the region to the Antarctic peninsula.

  • Monday, September 13th 2021 - 08:29 UTC

    Antarctic cruise company abandons Ushuaia and moves to Punta Arenas

    Silver Cloud and Silver Wind will be sailing from Punta Arenas and Silver Explorer from the Chilean Puerto Williams in November as scheduled

    Punta Arenas, the extreme south of Chile will be hosting Silversea Cruises as its base of operations, having decided to abandon Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego. Silversea announced a release in which it makes official its Antarctic cruise operations during the 2021/22 season, following an agreement with Chilean officials.

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