![Ainsworth bay and Marinelli Glacier](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Ainsworth_bay_and_Marinelli_Glacier.jpg)
Ainsworth Bay in the
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 ...
region of
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
is a coastal
inlet fed by the
meltwater of
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 Almiranta ...
. The Marinelli Glacier is in a state of retreat.
[C. Michael Hogan. 2008]
See also
*
Southern elephant seal
The southern elephant seal (''Mirounga leonina'') is one of two species of elephant seals. It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora, as well as the largest extant marine mammal that is not a cetacean. It gets its ...
*
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
Line notes
Bays of Chile
Bodies of water of Magallanes Region
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
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