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Photograph by Richard B. IToit 

 BAEMACEDA GEACIER, CHIEE 



The cloud-robed peak at the left towers 7,200 feet above the majestic river of ice, as it 

 slowly slips into the waters of Last Hope Sound. Chile is the longest, narrowest country in 

 the world. If placed along our Atlantic seaboard, it would extend from northern Maine to the 

 Panama Canal, yet at no point is it wider than the State of California. 



