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
The Wreck of the Wager, the frontispiece from John Byron's account
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
While Great Britain was fighting the War of Jenkins' Ear with Spain in 1740, Commodore George Anson led a squadron of eight ships on a mission to disrupt or capture the Spanish possessions in the Paci
Wager Island
…historian Ximena Urbina and co-workers, the Caucahue are essentially ancient Kawésqar. On 18 September 1740, the British warship HMS Wager (a part of Commodore George Anson's squadron) departed St Helens with a crew of 160 men along with a large number of invalids and marines. After becoming embayed in the Gulf of Penas just south…
Anson's ships in the Strait of Magellan
At Puerto San Julián
At Juan Fernández Islands
Anson's tent at Robinson Crusoe Island