Felipe Bay

The waters of the Strait of Magellan wash the coast near the ill-fated Spanish settlement of Rey Don Felipe. In 1584 Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded the town by Bahía Buena as part of an attempt to secure the passage. Cold weather, difficulty cultivating food and other hardships contributed to the deaths of most settlers, leaving the place remembered as Puerto del Hambre, or Port Famine.