Editing Magellanic subpolar forests (section)

==Setting==
The Magellanic subpolar forests ecoregion lies to the west of the [[Andes Mountains]], which run north-south for most of their length but curve eastward near the southern tip of South America, terminating at the archipelago of [[Tierra del Fuego]]. The Magellanic ecoregion was covered by glaciers during the last [[ice age]], and the landscape is deeply dissected by [[fjord]]s, with numerous islands, inlets, and channels, including the [[Strait of Magellan]], which separates Tierra del Fuego from the South American mainland and is the route taken by Portuguese explorer [[Ferdinand Magellan]] from the South Atlantic to the South Pacific. 
North of roughly 48° south latitude lies the [[Valdivian temperate forests]] ecoregion, which shares many affinities with the Magellanic ecoregion in plant and animal life. To the east lie the drier [[Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands|temperate grasslands and shrublands]] ecoregions of [[Patagonia]], which are in the rain shadow of the Andean and Fuegian mountains.