{{Annotated image | image = South America southern tip pol.png | image-width = 2200 <!-- choose a big image --> | image-left = -400 <!-- crop the left part --> | image-top = -250 <!-- crop the upper part --> | width = 300 <!-- crop the right part --> | height = 300 <!-- crop the below part --> | float = Right | caption = Click on the image to obtain the big map }} [[Image:Magellanic penguin4.jpg|250px|right|thumb|Seno Otway Magellanic penguin colony]] '''Seno Otway''' is a large inland sound lying between Brunswick Peninsula and Riesco Island in southern Chile. Alternatively called '''Otway Sound''', this natural waterway occupies a valley blocked by a large terminal moraine left by the retreat of a glacier during the last glacial period.<ref>USGS, 2008</ref> In spite of being located east of the Andes, it is connected to the open Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan via a narrow passage, which cuts into the Andean Massif. Seno Otway also is hydrologically connected with Seno Skyring by the Fitzroy Channel.
==Ecology== There are a variety of marine species within the Otway Sound, as well as along the coastal terrestrial and intertidal zones. Notably there is a moderately large colony of the Magellanic penguin along the coast of the Seno Otway.<ref>C.M. Hogan, 2008</ref>
Not to be confused with '''Otway Bay''' at the west entrance of the Abra Channel.
==See also== * Fjords and channels of Chile
==References== * United States Geological Survey (USGS) ''P 1386-I Chile and Argentina - Wet Andes: Past Glaciation'' [https://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/chile-arg/wet/past.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511200839/http://pubs.usgs.gov/prof/p1386i/chile-arg/wet/past.html |date=2008-05-11 }} accessdate=2008-01-29 * C. Michael Hogan (2008) ''Magellanic Penguin'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg [http://globaltwitcher.auderis.se/artspec_information.asp?thingid=232]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Otway, Seno}} Category:Sounds (geography) of Chile Category:Bodies of water of Magallanes Region {{MagellanAntarctic-geo-stub}}