Tag: Punta Arenas

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Three seismic tremors in the Drake Passage felt in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Three seismic tremors were felt in Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina, on Monday, with epicenter in the Drake Passage, according to Argentina and Chile seismology services. The incidents had no major impact in the capital of the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego or in nearby Puerto Williams in Chile.

• Saturday, August 18th 2018 - 07:52 UTC

  Punta Arenas 2018/19 cruise season expects 138 calls and 89.100 visitors

  

  The extreme south Chile 2018/2019 cruise season, which includes mainly Punta Arenas, plus Puerto Natales and Puerto Williams, is expected to take off next September 15 and will extend until 29 March 2019, as reported by the Austral Port Enterprise, EPAustal

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 11:11 UTC

  Punta Arenas moves into alternative energy and plans wind farm to supply 6.000 homes

  

  Magallanes Region in the extreme south of Chile is taking advantage of its weather conditions and will convert its wind gusts into energy. With some six million dollars from the National Fund for Regional Development and in coordination with Chilean government owned oil company Enap, a wind farm will be installed in Cabo Negro during the second half of the year.

• Monday, January 29th 2018 - 11:06 UTC

  “Rhubarb Day” celebrated at the Magallanes Expo in Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas celebrated “Rhubarb Day” as part of the Magallanes Expo celebrations. Although not original from the extreme south of Chile, rhubarb has long grown and adapted in Magallanes region where it is much valued for its gastronomic and medicinal properties.

• Wednesday, January 10th 2018 - 08:09 UTC

  Eastern Falkland Plateau to be surveyed by state of the art scientific research vessel

  

  The RRS Discovery arrived on Tuesday in Chile's extreme south port of Punta Arenas in advance of her next research expedition, to undertake seismic survey and piston coring operations in the eastern Falkland Plateau region of the Sub-Antarctic Southwest Atlantic Ocean.

• Thursday, June 29th 2017 - 08:17 UTC

  LGBTI Diversity Flag hoisted in Chilean city of Punta Arenas

  

  The diversity flag was hoisted Wednesday on Mount La Cruz in Punta Arenas, Chile's southernmost city, as part of the celebration of the International Gay Pride Day (LGBTI) by the Iguales Foundation. Similar ceremonies were held all over the world, including the Magallanes Region Government House, over 2,000 kilometers south of Santiago.

• Thursday, April 20th 2017 - 01:57 UTC

  Punta Arenas plans to seat a major Antarctica scientific research hub

  

  Chile will build the International Antarctic Center in the southern city of Punta Arenas, meant to become the entering point to the white continent for the world. The Governor of the Magellan region and the Chilean Antarctic, Jorge Flies stated this week that there were 35 projects developing in his jurisdiction, in three important areas.

• Tuesday, February 21st 2017 - 12:10 UTC

  Chilen Navy operating from Punta Arenas rescues Australian yacht skipper

  

  The Chilean Navy rescued 61-year-old Australian skipper Shane Freeman after his yacht Mushka was knocked down and dismasted 300 nautical miles west of Chile. The Australian was on his way to the Sunday Times Golden Globe race’s start line in the UK in his Tradewind 35 class yacht when the incident happened on 18 February 2017.

• Saturday, November 12th 2016 - 12:39 UTC

  DAP Airways opens summer link between Punta Arenas and Ushuaia

  

  Chilean privately owned DAP Airways inaugurated this week the link between Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile and Ushuaia, capital of Argentine Tierra del Fuego, a flexible commercial service that includes two weekly flights during the summer season and with the main purpose of increasing connectivity in the region and favoring tourism.

• Tuesday, November 1st 2016 - 01:30 UTC

  Insignia marks the official beginning of the cruise season for Punta Arenas

  

  With the arrival this Monday of M/V Insignia to Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile, and capital of the Magallanes region has officially declared opened the 2016/17 cruise season. It is estimated that 102.000 tourists will be visiting the region, although the number of vessel calls will drop drastically from 121 to 86.