Jungfrauen Island

Jungfrauen Island lies south of the Gulf of Penas, at the Pacific entrance to the intricate channels of western Patagonia. It is the largest of a group of islands, islets and rocks in the Wellington Archipelago. Navigators approaching this broken coast faced a maze of passages between islands and the mainland. Early charts portrayed much of the region as a single great island, reflecting how slowly its complicated geography was understood by European sailors.