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Bahía Posesión, also known in English as Possession Bay, is an ocean bay on the north shore of the Strait of Magellan located between Primera Angostura and Punta Dúngeness. It is approximately south of the Pali-Aike National Park, 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 lava tube 10,000 years ago.
In 1974, the oil tanker VLCC ''Metula'', en route to Quintero 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
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
Bahía Posesión, also known in English as Possession Bay, is an ocean bay on the north shore of the Strait of Magellan located between Primera Angostura and Punta Dúngeness. It is approximately south of the Pali-Aike National Park, 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 lava tube 10,000 years ago.
In 1974, the oil tanker VLCC ''Metula'', en route to Quintero 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
See also
*Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (, ; Spanish for "Land of the Fire", rarely also Fireland in English) is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. The archipelago consists of the main island, Isla ...
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References
* 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