Ancient
Deep Dive: Did Penguin Hunters Occupy a Campsite Off Patagonia’s Coast?
CADIZ, SPAIN—IFL Science reports that a team of researchers led by Nicolas C. Ciarlo of the University of Cadiz has discovered fragments of a nineteenth-century ship and traces of a camp that may have been left behind by Luis Piedra Buena and his crew. In 1873, Piedra Buena attempted to cross the dangerous Strait of Le Maire off the southern tip of South America in order to hunt penguins on the nearby Isla de los Estados.
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