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The Snipe incident was a military incident that took place between Chile and Argentina during 1958 as a result of a border dispute in the Beagle Channel.
Patrol boat Lientur of the Chilean Navy, a former US Navy fleet tug
Beagle Channel
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The Beagle Channel is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina. The channel separates the larger main island of Isla Grand
Snipe incident
…The Snipe incident was a military incident that took place between Chile and Argentina during 1958 as a result of a border dispute in the Beagle Channel. The two countries disagreed about the sovereign rights over the zone and Snipe, an uninhabitable islet between Picton Island and Navarino Island…
Partial aerial view of Beagle Channel. The Chilean Navarino Island is seen in the top-right while the Argentine part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego is seen at the bottom-left.
HMS Beagle at Ponsonby Sound in the Beagle Channel, by the ship's artist Conrad Martens.
Glacier (Beagle Channel), painted by Ingo Kühl (2005).
Sea Lions Island or La Isla de Los Lobos