Photo: John Voorhees (CC BY 2.0)
A self-guided audio tour of the Parque del Estrecho de Magallanes on the Punta Santa Ana peninsula south of Punta Arenas, which protects the first two attempts by Europeans to settle the shores of the Strait, almost three hundred years apart. It starts at the Museo del Estrecho, the park's visitor centre on the highest part of the peninsula, with its terrace looking over the Strait to Tierra del Fuego. At the ruins of Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, the town Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa founded in March 1584 for Spain, it tells how most of the colonists died of hunger, how the English corsair Thomas Cavendish found the few survivors in 1587 and named the place Port Famine, and what archaeologists still find there; a second stop reads the foundations of the town's church, whose first stone Sarmiento laid himself. At Fuerte Bulnes, a reconstruction of 1941 to 1943 on the site of the fort where Chile took possession of the Strait on 21 September 1843, it visits the fort and its chapel, then the Faro Bernardo O'Higgins, inaugurated in February 1944, and ends at the Mirador del Estrecho at the very end of the peninsula.
7 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 11 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 2 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The park's visitor centre on the highest part of the peninsula, with a terrace looking over the Strait to Tierra del Fuego.
The Spanish town Sarmiento de Gamboa founded in 1584, where most of the colonists died of hunger: Port Famine.
The foundations of the town's first building, the church whose first stone Sarmiento laid himself on 25 March 1584.
The fort where Chile took possession of the Strait in 1843, reconstructed between 1941 and 1943 on the original site.
The lighthouse at the point, built by the naval station of Magallanes for the centenary and inaugurated in February 1944.
The park's main lookout at the end of the peninsula, over the Strait in both directions to Tierra del Fuego and Dawson Island.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 7 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 7 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Fuerte Bulnes and Puerto del Hambre — the Strait of Magellan Park, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
7 narration points, including Fuerte Bulnes, Museo del Estrecho, Ruinas de Ciudad del Rey Don Felipe, Ruinas de la Iglesia de Rey Don Felipe and Capilla de Fuerte Bulnes. That is about 9 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~4.5–6 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 7 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.