Dream Destinations: Logan

Inside Passage to Tierra del Fuego

If you want to get away from it all, you can't get much farther than the literal end of the earth. Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost point in the Americas. Although it's been populated for thousands of years, Europeans first learned of it through Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of circumnavigation in 1520. It's where the currents of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans violently clash, and until the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, "Rounding Cape Horn" was a treacherous but necessary passage to transport goods by sea from one American coast to the other. 

Team Brunel rounds Cape Horn in the 2015 Volvo Ocean Race. No thank you! Photo - Rick Tomlinson/Volvo Ocean Race

Logan would opt for a more leisurely cruise inland, through the fjords and channels of Chile, which provide stunning views of both enormous rock formations and shimmering glaciers. If you want to get back to nature, this is the way to do it. In fact, Logan would be following a course charted by another great naturalist, Charles Darwin om The Beagle, who explored this area in 1830, leaving its mark on the territory with locales like The Beagle Channel and Mount Darwin. In writing about Tierra del Fuego Darwin said, "It is scarcely possible to imagine anything more beautiful than the beryl-like blue of these glaciers, and especially as contrasted with the dead white of the upper expanse of snow."

We hear you, Logan. NYC sailing is incredible, but when you need to get away from it all—like really, really away—you can't pick a more pristine spot than the fjords of southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego.