Editing Beagle Channel (section)

==History==
{{See also|Tierra del Fuego gold rush}}

The [[Yaghan people]]s settled the islands along the [[Murray Channel]], which connects to the southern side of the Beagle Channel, approximately 10,000 years before present. There are notable [[archaeological]] sites indicating such early Yaghan settlement at locations such as [[Bahia Wulaia]] on [[Isla Navarino]], site of the ''Bahia Wulaia Dome Middens''.<ref>C. Michael Hogan, 2008</ref>

===Mythology===
According to a [[Selkʼnam myth]], the  channel was created alongside the [[Strait of Magellan]] and [[Fagnano Lake]] in places where slingshots fell on earth during Taiyín's fight with a witch who was said to have "retained the waters and the foods".<ref name=Sonia2015>{{Cite book|title=Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos|last=Montecino Aguirre|first=Sonia|publisher=[[Catalonia (publisher)|Catalonia]] |year=2015|isbn=978-956-324-375-8 |page=125|chapter=Canal de Beagle |language=es}}</ref>

===Naming and Darwin visit===
The channel was named after the ship [[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] during its first [[hydrographic survey]] of the coasts of the southern part of South America which lasted from 1826 to 1830. During that expedition, under the overall command of Commander [[Phillip Parker King]], the ''Beagle''{{'s}} captain [[Pringle Stokes]] committed suicide and was replaced by captain [[Robert FitzRoy]]. The ship continued the survey in the [[second voyage of HMS Beagle|second voyage of ''Beagle'']] under the command of captain FitzRoy, who took [[Charles Darwin]] along as a self-funding [[wikt:supernumerary|supernumerary]], giving him opportunities as an amateur [[naturalist]]. Darwin had his first sight of [[glacier]]s when they reached the channel on 29 January 1833, and wrote in his field notebook  "It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow."<ref>Charles Darwin, ''Voyage of the Beagle'' (New York: Collier, 1909), chapter 10, p. 240.</ref><ref name=glaciers>{{cite web |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=A345&pageseq=2 |title=An 1830s View from Outside Switzerland: Charles Darwin on the "Beryl Blue" Glaciers of Tierra del Fuego |author=Herbert, Sandra |year= 1999 |publisher=Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae |pages=92, 339–46 |access-date=2008-12-22}}</ref>

===Beagle conflict===
Several small islands ([[Beagle Channel cartography since 1881|Picton, Lennox and Nueva]]) up to the [[Cape Horn]] were the subject of the long-running [[Beagle conflict]] between Chile and Argentina. From the 1950s to 1970s several incidents involving the Chilean and Argentine navies occurred in the waters of the Beagle Channel, for example the 1958 [[Snipe incident]], the 1967 ''Cruz del Sur'' incident and the shelling of ''Quidora'' the same year. See [[List of incidents during the Beagle conflict]]. By the terms of a [[Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina]] the islands are now part of Chile.<ref name="Laudy" />

=== Beagle Channel in the Fine Arts ===
As a ship's painter, [[Conrad Martens]] drew and created watercolour paintings in 1833 and 1834 during the [[Second voyage of HMS Beagle|second voyage of HMS ''Beagle'']] in [[Tierra del Fuego]].<ref>[[Richard Keynes]]: ''The Beagle Record: Selections from the Original Pictorial Records and Written Accounts of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle'', 1979, CUP Archives {{ISBN|0-521-21822-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D1K22Rbc20  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/8D1K22Rbc20| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=A Voyage of Sketches: The Art of Conrad Martens |date=2014|publisher=Cambridge Digital Library |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

The German painter [[Ingo Kühl]] traveled three times to the Beagle Channel, where he created paintings on board a sailing yacht.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D994116454|title=Landschaften am Ende der Welt / Paisages del fin del mundo / mit einem Text von / con un texto de Antonio Skármeta|first=Ingo|last=Kühl|date=2006|publisher=I. Kühl|via=Deutsche Nationalbibliothek|access-date=16 April 2022|archive-date=11 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220311133535/https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D994116454|url-status=live}}</ref>

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File:HMS Beagle by Conrad Martens.jpg|[[HMS Beagle|HMS ''Beagle'']] at Ponsonby Sound in the Beagle Channel, by the ship's artist Conrad Martens.<ref>{{harvnb|Keynes|2001|p=[http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=F1925&pageseq=259 227]}}</ref>
File: Ingo Kühl "Gletscher (Beagle Kanal)" 2005.jpg |''Glacier (Beagle Channel)'', painted by Ingo Kühl (2005).
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