HMS Wager (1739)
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HMS Wager was a square-rigged sixth-rate Royal Navy ship of 28 guns. It was built as an East Indiaman in about 1734 and made two voyages to India for the East India Company before the Royal Navy purch
"The Wreck of the Wager", the frontispiece from John Byron's account
Wager Island
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Wager Island is an uninhabited island in Guayaneco Archipelago, a remote part of western Patagonia. Located 1,600 kilometres south of Santiago, the island is part of Capitán Prat Province of the Aysén
HMS Wager (1739)
…of Chile on 14 May 1741. The wreck of Wager became famous for the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves marooned on the desolate Wager Island in the middle of a Patagonian winter, and in particular because of the Wager Mutiny that followed. Wager was an East Indiaman, an armed trading vessel…
Detail of the "Centennial Atlas", published by the Land Survey Office of the Government of Chile in 1910
Territorio de Magallanes 1895 1
Península Larenas