Juan Fernandez High Sea

Far out in the southeastern Pacific, the Juan Fernández archipelago rises from the ocean west of Chile. Its western island, historically called Más Afuera, lies well beyond the island of Más a Tierra and has fewer sheltered anchorages. The Humboldt Current flows between the islands and the mainland, separating the oceanic island waters from the cold current along the coast. Sailors who reached this remote group encountered a landscape of steep volcanic islands surrounded by open sea.