The Comau Fjord, in the Chilean region of Patagonia, is one of the only sites in the world where the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus lives just 5 meters (16 feet) below the sea surface. The ...

Experience the wonder of discovery as you travel through mesmerizing landscapes almost untouched since Magellan found them nearly 500 years ago. Our unique 12-day voyage to Patagonia and the Chilean ...

Fishing pens are considered sustainable fishing method and have been used in Chile’s Patagonian region since pre-Columbian times. Residents of the Huequi Peninsula have restored a fishing pen and ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. At the head of a remote fjord in southern Chile, a determined Norwegian named Samsing settled down in 1925 to a life of ...