{{coord|-54.768049|-71.240152|source:NGA|display=title}} {{Annotated image | image = South America southern tip pol.png | image-width = 2700 <!-- choose a big image --> | image-left = -650 <!-- crop the left part --> | image-top = -800 <!-- crop the upper part --> | width = 400 <!-- crop the right part --> | height = 300 <!-- crop the below part --> | float = right | annotations = | caption = Southwest side of Tierra del Fuego. }} The '''Ballenero Channel''' (Spanish: ''Canal Ballenero'') runs between the Tierra del Fuego and Cook, Londonderry and the Stewart Islands and joints the ''Pomar Channel'' (north of O'Brien Island) and ''O'Brien Channel'' (south of the O'Brien Island) to the Desolada Bay and to the Pacific Ocean.
It is part of the official route between Puerto Williams and Strait of Magellan: from islote Anxious - Canal Magdalena - Canal Cockburn - Paso Brecknock or Canal Ocasión - Canal Unión - Paso Occidental - Paso Norte - Canal Ballenero- Canal O'Brien - Paso Timbales - Brazo noroeste del Canal Beagle - Canal Beagle - Puerto Williams (and back).(Chilean ships can use Paso Aguirre)
It was formerly known as ''Whaleboat Sound'', as in US Hydrographic Office, ''South America Pilot'', (1916).
==See also== * Fjords and channels of Chile
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Citation |author=Chilean Navy |author-link=Chilean Navy |title=Strait of Magellan, Chilean Channels and Fiords Regulations and information for Piloting. Routes |work=web.directemar.cl/ |url=http://web.directemar.cl/pilotaje/pageA.html |accessdate=16 April 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008025907/http://web.directemar.cl/pilotaje/pageA.html |archivedate=8 October 2012 |url-status=dead }} * {{Citation |author=Chilean Navy |author-link=Chilean Navy |title=Strait of Magellan, Chilean Channels and Fiords Regulations and information for Piloting. Routes |work=web.directemar.cl/ |url=http://web.directemar.cl/pilotaje/pageB.html |accessdate=16 April 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124225402/http://web.directemar.cl/pilotaje/pageB.html |archivedate=24 November 2012 |url-status=dead }} * {{Citation |author=Chilean Navy |author-link=Chilean Navy |title=Strait of Magellan, Chilean Channels and Fiords Regulations and information for Piloting. Routes |work=web.directemar.cl/ |url=http://web.directemar.cl/pilotaje/pageC.html |accessdate=16 April 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126225631/http://web.directemar.cl/pilotaje/pageC.html |archivedate=26 November 2012 |url-status=dead }} * {{Citation |author = Ministerio de Obras Públicas de Chile |author-link = Ministry of Public Works (Chile) |year = 2012 |title = Cartas camineras 2010 in 200 dpi and 70 dpi resolution available |chapter = Maps of all regions of Chile |chapter-url = http://www.mapas.mop.cl/CARTAS%20CAMINERAS.htm |type = Maps |publisher = Government of Chile |language = Spanish |accessdate = 20 April 2013 |chapter-format = jpg and pdf |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120904060553/http://www.mapas.mop.cl/CARTAS%20CAMINERAS.htm |archivedate = 4 September 2012 |mode = cs2 |url-status = live }}
* United States Hydrographic Office, [https://archive.org/details/southamericapil01offigoog South America Pilot] (1916)
Ballenero Category:Bodies of water of Magallanes Region