Editing Beagle Channel (section)

{{Short description|Strait in Tierra del Fuego}}
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|image              = [[File:090111-6 Above ビーグル水道.jpg|frameless|upright=1.2]] <br/> Partial aerial view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean [[Navarino Island]] is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of [[Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego]] is seen at the bottom-left.<br />[[File:Canalbeagle.png|frameless|upright=1.2]] <br/> Beagle Channel, from the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] to the [[Atlantic Ocean]].
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|cities             = [[Ushuaia]], Argentina <br /> [[Puerto Williams]], Chile
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'''Beagle Channel''' ({{Langx|es|Canal del Beagle}}; [[Yahgan language|Yahgan]]: ''Onašaga''<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Piepke |first1=Joachim G. |last2=Striegel |first2=Angelika |title=The Last Yagan: Reminiscences of Cristina Calderón from Tierra del Fuego |journal=Anthropos |date=2017 |volume=112 |issue=2 |pages=562–568 |doi=10.5771/0257-9774-2017-2-562 |jstor=44791391 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44791391 |access-date=17 February 2022 |issn=0257-9774|url-access=subscription }}</ref>) is a [[strait]] in the [[Tierra del Fuego|Tierra del Fuego Archipelago]], on the extreme southern tip of [[South America]] between [[Chile]] and [[Argentina]].<ref>Sergio Zagier, 2006</ref> The channel separates the larger main island of [[Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego]] from various smaller islands including the islands of [[Picton, Lennox and Nueva]]; [[Navarino Island|Navarino]]; [[Hoste Island|Hoste]]; [[Londonderry Island|Londonderry]]; and Stewart. The channel's eastern area forms part of the border between Chile and Argentina and the western area is entirely within Chile.

The Beagle Channel, the [[Straits of Magellan]] to the north, and the open-ocean [[Drake Passage]] to the south are the three navigable passages around South America between the [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]] and [[Atlantic Ocean]]s. 

The Beagle Channel is about {{convert|240|km|nmi mi}} long and {{convert|5|km|nmi mi|0}} wide at its narrowest point. It extends from [[Isla Nueva|Nueva Island]] in the east to [[Darwin Sound]] and [[Bahía Cook|Cook Bay]] in the Pacific Ocean in the west.  Some {{convert|50|km|nmi mi|0}} from its western end, it divides into two branches, north and south of [[Gordon Island]].  The southwest branch between Hoste Island and Gordon Island enters Cook Bay. The northwest branch between Gordon Island and Isla Grande enters Darwin Sound, which connects to the Pacific Ocean by the O'Brien and [[Ballenero Channel|Ballenero]] channels. The biggest settlement on the channel is [[Ushuaia]] in Argentina followed by [[Puerto Williams]] in Chile. These are amongst the [[southernmost settlements]] in the world.