How is the terrain in Punta Arenas?
Punta Arenas is on a gently sloping plain that rises pretty quickly into some small mountains about 3,000 feet high. You can see some snow on top of some of the peaks. It’s incredibly windy most of the time, so mostly you see only scraggly little trees or open fields of grass. Sabina: Is the sunlight strong and hot? Even though it’s spring here, we are so far south that the sunlight isn’t very strong. It’s also been overcast most of the time we’ve been here. Callie: Was Magdalena Island named after the penguins living there? Chile, along with the rest of South America, was settled by the Spanish and Portuguese, which are Catholic countries. So the name Magdalena is Spanish for Mary Magdalene. The penguins are named after the island, which is where they nest. Callie: Is the sun a different color? Nope. The sun looks pretty much the same here as it does up in Boston, except that it appears to go around in a mirror image of what we see in Boston. It tends to rise in the Southeast, then mo
