Alberto-Agostini National Park

Alberto de Agostini National Park is located in the Chilean part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The park was established in 1965 and named after the Italian explorer and cartographer Alberto de Agostini, who first mapped the Strait of Magellan. A characteristic feature of the park is an extremely indented coastline.

The territory of the national park consists of islands that lie south of the Strait of Magellan and to the island of Navarino. Part of the Big Island of Tierra del Fuego, Gordon Island, Londonderry, Cook and part of Hoste Island. The park also includes several hanging glaciers, reaching simply huge sizes, the most significant of which are de Agostini and Marinelli. The glaciers of the park do not cover the tops of the mountains, but lie in a thick layer of snow in the mountain valleys, thus creating small high plateaus.

The basis of the park is the Cordillera Darwin mountain range, the slopes of which descend to the ocean. The most famous peaks of the mountains are Sarmiento and Darwin. It is around Mount Darwin that the most picturesque landscape of the park is formed.

In general, the territory of the Alberto de Agostini Park belongs to the vast Chilean region of Magellanic-polar forests. The animal world of the reserve is represented mainly by marine species: sea otter, southern elephant, South American sea lions.

The Alberto de Agostini National Park, together with Cape Horn National Park, was recognized by UNESCO as a Biosphere Reserve in 2005 and was named Cape Horn.