Three penguins walk in front of a grassy hill, topped by a white and red lighthouse.

Penguins frame the lighthouse at Magdelena Island. Photo credit: Gerry Feehan

Punta Arenas Photo Gallery

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Three penguins walk in front of a grassy hill, topped by a white and red lighthouse.

Penguins frame the lighthouse at Magdelena Island.

The amazing view from Hotel Cabo de Hornos over Plaza de Armas.

Scrumptious Patagonian pastries.

Welcome to the Penguins Monument!

40,000 penguins host tourists for a few hours each day.

Tourists stay behind the rope but the penguins don't.

A smirking Magellanic penguin.

Punta Arenas is one of earth's southernmost cities.

Many Punta Arenas street fronts are decorated with art.

Most afternoons, the Strait of Magellan becomes a tunnel of wind.

The cellar restaurant in the Braun mansion was dingy but delicious.

This penguin is waiting for the tourists to leave.

Rambunctious rowdy kelp gulls.

A young local poses with Piloto Pardo.

A solitary skua waits for an unattended egg.