Blue sky view of Chacao Channel and ships, looking towards Andean volcanoes, from the coast near Chacao, Chiloe Island, Chile
Regular ferries (every 30 min, people CH$ 600, cars CH$ 9000) cross from Pargua on the mailnland to the village of Chacao on the north shore of Chiloe Island. For over three hundred years Chiloe Island was isolated from mainland Chile due to the fierce resistance of the indigenous Mapuche Indians to European colonisation. Potentially explosive stratovolcanoes, composed of ash, pumice and andesite lava layers, are seen in the background of the view. The 2652 metres (8701 feet) high Osorno Volcano has a classic cone, similar in appearance to Mount Fuji. The uppers slopes are covered in glaciers, due to the high levels of snowfall in the very moist maritime climate of Southern Chile's Los Lagos Region. The volcano, sitting in the 6 km wide caldera of an older volcano, is known to have erupted 11 times between 1575 and 1869. Charles Darwin, in the 2nd voyage of the Beagle, saw an eruption in January 1835. The neighbouring Calbuco Volcano has erupted 9 times since 1837, 30 cm 'bombs' of lava being thrown up to 8 km from the crater in one of the largest eruptions in Southern Chile in 1893-94. The last major eruption in 1961 produced ash columns 12-15 km high. Steam emissions were seen on 19 August 1996. Violent stratovolcanoes are common in subduction zones, where oceanic crust is drawn down under a continent. A third volcano, Tronador, is seen between the two.
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Location: Chacao Channel, Chacao, Chiloe Island, Patagonia, Chile
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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