''Picton Channel'' (Spanish: ''Canal Picton'') is a

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in the

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that continues southward the Ladrillero Channel, and it runs between the Chipana Island (east) and

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(west). With the Ladrillero and Fallos Channel, it forms an optional route to the

Messier Channel Messier Channel is a channel located in Patagonia, Chile. It trends north–south between Wellington Island and other Pacific islands and the continent, and is bounded on the north by the Gulf of Penas. Southward the name of this inside passa ...

- Grappler Channel-

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. It has several arms or fjords. The

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(1916) states: :''Picton Channel, with an average breadth of 1 miles, extends to the northward and westward for about 20 miles, with bold shores intersected by inlets on either side and deep water in mid-channel. Mornington Island, the western shore, then becomes low and dips gradually to the northward till it ends 36 miles from

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in an extensive area of rocks, islets, and disconnected breakers, with no prominent islets fit for leading marks to guide a vessel through the channels to the sea.''

History

On 2 January 1916, not far from Golfo Ladrillero, the Chilean ship ''Casma'' run aground at the shore of the Picton Channel.

References

* * {{coord missing, Chile Straits of Chile Bodies of water of Magallanes Region