Travel on Paper (Thirty-One) – Patagonia in southern Chile. Patagonia means "giant foot" in Spanish, and arrived today in 1519 with Magellan's circumnavigational travels

Travel on Paper (Thirty-One) – Patagonia in southern Chile.

Patagonia means "giant foot" in Spanish, and in 1519, with Magellan's round-the-world travels to the Italian scholar Antonio Pigafeta near the city of Commodore Rivadavia, he saw the local indigenous people, the Batagon people, wearing fat and bulky animal skin shoes, leaving huge footprints on the beach, and named it Patagonia.

It is a sparsely populated and desolate world, but the clear 10,000-year-old glaciers, colorful lakes, rocky snow peaks, and archipelago fjords have retained the most original magnificence. Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Patagonia is the largest island in South America, with the Strait of Magellan on the northern shore that runs through the South Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean, and Cape Horn in the south at the end of the world at 56 degrees south latitude, which is almost always faced with roaring waves, perhaps one of the world's coldest and most turbulent ends of the earth. (Image from the Internet)