Ainsworth Bay in the

Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego (, ; Spanish for "Land of Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South America, South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of the main is ...

region of

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is a coastal

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fed by the

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Marinelli Glacier Marinelli Glacier is a tidewater glacier located in Alberto de Agostini National Park, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. The glacier spills out from the backbone of the Cordillera Darwin and calves into Ainsworth Bay, an embayment of the Almirant ...

. The Marinelli Glacier is in a state of retreat.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

References

*C. Michael Hogan. 200
''Bahia Wulaia Dome Middens'', ''Megalithic Portal'', ed. Andy Burnham
* Eric Earle Shipton (2007) ''Tierra del Fuego: The Fatal Lodestone'', Published by Readers Union, 175 pages

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Bays of Chile Bodies of water of Magallanes Region Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego {{MagellanAntarctic-geo-stub

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