Bahía Posesión, also known in English as Possession Bay, is an ocean bay on the north shore of the

Strait of Magellan The Strait of Magellan (), also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south. The strait is considered the most important natural pass ...

located between

Primera Angostura Primera Angostura is a sound of the Strait of Magellan in the Chilean region of Magallanes. It is located near Punta Delgada. It lies between the commune of San Gregorio, in Magallanes Province, to the north, and the commune of Primavera, in ...

and

Punta Dúngeness Punta Dúngeness is a headland at the eastern entrance of the Strait of Magellan on its north shore, opposite Cabo del Espiritu Santo in Tierra del Fuego. West of the Punta Dungeness lies the Bahía Posesión. Punta Dungeness marks the border ...

. It is approximately south of the

Pali-Aike National Park The Pali-Aike National Park is a park located in the Magallanes Region of Patagonia in Chile. ''Pali-Aike'' is a Tehuelche name that means ''Desolate Place''. Created in 1970, it covers an area of and includes part of the Pali-Aike Volcanic Fi ...

, the location of some of the earliest known human settlement in the Americas, going as far back as the human occupation at the

Pali-Aike crater The Pali-Aike volcanic field is a volcanic field along the Argentina–Chile border. It is part of a family of back-arc volcanoes in Patagonia, which formed from processes involving the collision of the Chile Ridge with the Peru–Chile Trench. I ...

lava tube A lava tube, or pyroduct, is a natural conduit formed by flowing lava from a volcanic vent that moves beneath the hardened surface of a lava flow. If lava in the tube empties, it will leave a cave. Formation A lava tube is a type of lava ca ...

10,000 years ago. In 1974, the oil tanker VLCC ''Metula'', en route to

Quintero Quintero is a Chilean city and commune in Valparaíso Province, in the Valparaíso Region, 30 kilometers north of Valparaíso. The commune spans an area of . It was the first port in the country, created during the expedition of Diego de Almagr ...

Bay, Chile, ran aground here and lost some 60,000 tons of light Arabian crude before reflotation, severely affecting the local wildlife.Roy W. Harm, 1974

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* Roy W. Harm, Jr.
Metula Oil Spill
'', U.S. Coast Guard Report, 1974. * C. Michael Hogan,
Pali Aike
', The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham, 2008. Strait of Magellan Bays of Chile Bodies of water of Magallanes Region {{MagallanesyAntártica-geo-stub

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