Qualla: Puerto San Julián https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Puerto San Julián https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian Puerto San Julián: Introduction https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian/ Two sets of gallows once stood on this lonely Patagonian shore. Magellan raised the first in 1520, when his captains rose against him on Easter night and he answered with a sword. Fifty-eight years later, Francis Drake's men sailed into the same bay and found the rotting timbers still standing - an omen, perhaps, for what Drake was about to do to his own closest friend. Few harbours on Earth have witnessed so much resolve and so much blood for their size. Puerto San Julián is a small town today, but the great voyages that drew the modern map of the world nearly all paused here, in this sheltered water at the bottom of the Americas.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/p/z/puerto-san-julian-wp/4rpz-puerto-san-juli-n-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Puerto San Julián: Magellan's Bitter Winter https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian/ Ferdinand Magellan dropped anchor here on 31 March 1520, leading a Spanish expedition in search of a passage to the Pacific, and stayed five long months waiting out the southern winter. The waiting frayed his crew. Within weeks his captains mutinied at midnight on Easter Sunday, ...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/p/z/puerto-san-julian-wp/4rpz-puerto-san-juli-n-magellans-bitter-winter.mp3 0:06 2 full Puerto San Julián: The People He Named https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian/ It was here that Magellan's crew met the native people of the coast, the ancestors of the Tehuelche, and here that one of the most enduring names in geography was born. The expedition's chronicler, Antonio Pigafetta, described the people as giants - tall and striking to Europeans...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/p/z/puerto-san-julian-wp/4rpz-puerto-san-juli-n-the-people-he-named.mp3 0:06 3 full Puerto San Julián: Drake and the Friend He Killed https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian/ On 15 June 1578, Francis Drake brought his own circumnavigation into this same bay and chose, like Magellan, to overwinter - finding the old Spanish gallows waiting on the shore. Drake too was struggling with dissent, and he turned on Thomas Doughty, a gentleman and a personal fr...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/p/z/puerto-san-julian-wp/4rpz-puerto-san-juli-n-drake-and-the-friend-he-killed.mp3 0:06 4 full Puerto San Julián: Darwin's Monster in the Cliffs https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian/ Centuries later the harbour drew a very different kind of explorer. In January 1834, the young naturalist Charles Darwin arrived aboard HMS Beagle under Captain Robert FitzRoy, and while the ship surveyed the coast, Darwin went poking through the cliffs near the bay. He found fos...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/r/p/z/puerto-san-julian-wp/4rpz-puerto-san-juli-n-darwins-monster-in-the-cliffs.mp3 0:06 5 full Puerto San Julián: Wool, War, and a Quiet Town https://qualla.com/puerto-san-julian/ The drama eventually settled into ordinary life. By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, San Julián and its surrounding 'camp' had become important sheep country, and the Swift company built a frigorífico - a great freezer plant - along the coast north of town to pr...

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