This grouping has the one really, really dull photo of the lot. Palm trees? Who takes pictures of palm trees when there are so many seascapes around. It also has the worst caption of the lot. Something unreadable, then Tal, Chili. I went to an online gazetteer and couldn't find anything even close. If it's the name of a settlement, it might be one that has faded from history. Maybe the settlement failed because of the palm trees. The top photo is of a town called Tocopilla, yet another small port in the Antafogasta section of Chili that has grown quite a bit since the photo was taken. In the 2002 census, 23,986 people. In 2007, an earthquake made 4,000 people homeless out of a population that had grown to 27,000. Tocopilla is also the hometown of film maker and artist, Alejandro Jodorowsky, director of cult classic, El Topo. The bottom photo...look beyond the sailboat, and the town that is off in the distance is Punta Arenas, misspelled Arrenas. Punta Arenas was founded as a penal colony in 1848. Today it's the capitol of Magellanes & Antarctic Chilena, and is the major resupply port for science stations in Antarctica.
Written on the backs of the photos, top to bottom. "Tocopilla, Chili," "Straights of Magellan," "Straights of Magellan," "(Unreadable) Tal, Chili," and "Punta Arrenas near Straights of Magellan."
The unreadable part is perhaps Tal Tal (or Taltal) in Northern Chile:https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taltal
ReplyDeleteThose palmtrees are chilean palmtrees (Jubaea chilensis), so that photo cannot have been taken either in Antofagasta (it's not taltal nor tocopilla) nor Magallanes region (these do not grow here), but nearby Valparaiso.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubaea It is a good picture of an actual botanic symbol of Chile.
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