Brent Stephenson / A cruise ship heads back up the Beagle Channel towards Ushuaia at the end of an Antarctic cruise. Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, South America, December.

Tui De Roy / Tourists cruising Beagle Channel beneath Romanche Glacier, Patagonia, Chile

Mark Carwardine / Magellanic / Jackass penguin colony {Spheniscus magellani} Tierra del Fuego,

Mark Carwardine / Magellanic / Jackass penguin colony {Spheniscus magellani} Tierra del Fuego,

Konrad Wothe / Ushuaia harbour, southernmost citiy of Argentina, Beagle-Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, South America. February 2007.

Konrad Wothe / Ushuaia, Southernmost city of Argentina, Beagle-Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, South America

Brent Stephenson / South American Tern (Sterna hirundinacea) in breeding plumage, flying in evening light. Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, South America, January.

Brent Stephenson / Three Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis) in flight. Over the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, South America, January.

Brent Stephenson / Three Black-faced Ibis (Theristicus melanopis) in flight. Over the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, South America, January.

Brent Stephenson / Evening sun catching the clouds with snow-clad mountains. Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, South America, December.

Brent Stephenson / Clouds cloaking the shore of the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, South America, December.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Museo Yamana, the museum to the indigenous indians of the Beagle Channel region. Ushuaia, Argentina, October 2006.

Doug Allan / Lonnberg's skua (Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi) sitting on nest near Ushuaia, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina.

Tui De Roy / Flightless Steamerduck (Tachyeres pteneres) pair on shore, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Tui De Roy / Dolphin Gull (Leucophaeus scoresbii) pair, Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Tui De Roy / Dolphin Gull (Leucophaeus scoresbii), Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Tui De Roy / Southern Caracara (Caracara plancus), Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Colin Monteath / Sunset over Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Chile

Chris Gomersall / Southern beech (Nothofagus) forest in Tierra del Fuego National Park. Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. January 2007.

Chris Gomersall / Rainbow over Southern beech (Nothofagus) forest in Tierra del Fuego National Park. Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. January 2007.

Hanne & Jens Eriksen / Garibaldi fjord with glacier, Beagle Channel, Chile

Colin Monteath / Windstorm over ocean in Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

Daniel Gomez / Fur seals {Artcocephalus australis} and Comorants {Phalacrocorax albiventer} on rocks, Beagle channel, Argentina, South America

Rick Tomlinson / Skip Novak's yacht "Pelagic" in the Beagle Channel, Chile, South America.

Onne van der Wal / A glacier in the Beagle Channel, Argentina.

Onne van der Wal / A coast guard station on the shores of the Beagle Channel, Chile.

Onne van der Wal / Puerto Williams in the Beagle Channel, Chile.

Onne van der Wal / A marker in the Beagle channel with snow covered mountain behind, Tierra del Fuego, South America.

Onne van der Wal / Skip Novak yacht "Pelagic" motorsailing down the Beagle Channel, Chile.

Onne van der Wal / Lighthouse on Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, southern Chile.

Onne van der Wal / A lighthouse on the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, southern Chile

Colin Monteath / Sunset over Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Chile

Colin Monteath / Darwin Range and Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Chile

Flip de Nooyer / Blue-eyed Cormorant (Phalacrocorax atriceps) colony on Bird Island, Faro Les Eclaireurs lighthouse in the background, Beagle Channel off of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina