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Bahía Lapataia

Lapataia Bay is a fjord located in the north side of the Beagle Channel, in the southwest side of Tierra del Fuego Island. It is surrounded by forests belonging...
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Lapataia Bay is a fjord located in the north side of the Beagle Channel, in the southwest side of Tierra del Fuego Island. It is surrounded by forests belonging to the Tierra del Fuego National Park, although technically it is outside of that.

While geomorphologically Lapataia is actually a fjord, it was accidentally individualized with the term bay in the literature. Lapataia Bay belongs has a subpolar oceanic climate.

Lapataia Bay was originated by the action of glaciers. A huge glacier in the final stages of the glaciation, descended from the mountains moved through a longitudinal valley, which was polished with the ice. It joined the giant glacier that was in what is now the Beagle Channel. Later, before the post-glacial retreat, the space that had been occupied by the ice was invaded by the sea.
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