A small anchorage with the Holanda and Italia glaciers hanging above it, condors overhead, beech forest to the waterline and no…A small anchorage with the Holanda and Italia glaciers hanging above it, condors overhead, beech forest to the waterline and no one else. The Beagle Channel's glacier alley is a succession of ice tongues running down to the sea. The classic staging anchorage before Cape Horn. Named for HMS Beagle, which surveyed here with Darwin aboard in 1833. The Yámana people lived in these channels for 6,000 years, naked in near-freezing conditions, kept warm by fires they carried in their canoes, which gave Tierra del Fuego, the land of fire, its name. Anchorage: A caleta behind a moraine spit with good holding; shore lines essential against williwaws, sudden 50kt+ downdrafts off the glaciers. Hazards: No site-specific hazards noted, brief normally. More