The Ballenero Channel (Spanish: ''Canal Ballenero'') runs between the

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and

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, Londonderry and the

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s and joints the ''Pomar Channel'' (north of O'Brien Island) and ''O'Brien Channel'' (south of the O'Brien Island) to the Desolada Bay and to the

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. It is part of the official route between Puerto Williams and

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: from islote Anxious - Canal Magdalena - Canal Cockburn - Paso Brecknock or Canal Ocasión - Canal Unión - Paso Occidental - Paso Norte - Canal Ballenero- Canal O'Brien - Paso Timbales - Brazo noroeste del Canal Beagle - Canal Beagle - Puerto Williams (and back).(Chilean ships can use Paso Aguirre) It was formerly known as ''Whaleboat Sound'', as in US Hydrographic Office, ''South America Pilot'', (1916).

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South America Pilot
(1916) Ballenero Bodies of water of Magallanes Region

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