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Magallanes

British  
/ maɣaˈʎanes /

noun

  1. the former name of Punta Arenas

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In a post on X, Chilean President Gabriel Boric said: "We call for evacuation of the coastline throughout the Magallanes region."

From BBC May 2, 2025

The warning was issued for the remote Magallanes region on the country's southern tip and parts of the Chilean Antarctic Territory.

From BBC May 2, 2025

Magallanes believes the problem is simpler: Union Pacific, he said, doesn’t “want to take responsibility.”

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2023

The remains, recovered from Chile's far south Rio de las Chinas Valley in the Magallanes Basin between 2016 and 2020, also include some unusual remains of unenlagia, velociraptor-like dinosaurs which likely lived covered in feathers.

From Reuters Jan. 16, 2023

They had also been taken possession of for Spain by Magallanes.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

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