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Cockburn Channel

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better provided with coves and inlets in which a vessel may find it convenient to anchor. Two rocks are plainly visible above water in the entrance to Cockburn Channel. One rock lies about 10.5 miles 168° from Mount Skyring and appears to be identical with Leon Rock, which is shown on the charts. The other lies northeastward of Tussac Rocks, about 7.5 miles 171° from Mount Skyring.
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have the same entrance into the Pacific, but it runs in an easterly direction along the south side of Clarence Island for 40 miles and into Magdalen Sound in Magellan Strait. In working through this passage the south shore ought to be preferred, as it is usually a weather shore, and it seems to be
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The islands and channels at the west entrance of the Strait of Magellan: Cockburn, Magdalena, and Barbara Channels
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and extends 40 miles (64 km) east from the open
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Cockburn Channel is located in Chile
South America
54°20′S 71°30′W / 54.333°S 71.500°W / -54.333; -71.500
Basin
Chile
Spanish
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
Clarence Island
Capitán Aracena Island
Chile
54°20′S 71°30′W / 54.333°S 71.500°W / -54.333; -71.500
Pacific Ocean
Magdalena Channel
Strait of Magellan
Beagle Channel
Bárbara Channel
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