The drive from Chaiten is via the Carretera Austral, Chile's recently completed southern highway.
The Carretera Austral Chile's southern highway is a spectacular 1,200km route of snow-capped mountains, fjords, glacial lakes and waterfalls - a classic journey through the Patagonian wilderness.
For four days my girlfriend and I had been driving along the Carretera Austral, Chile's great 1,250km southern highway, penetrating deep into the remote province of Aisén.
The Tubuai, or Austral, Islands, situated 450 miles (720 km) south of Tahiti, make up the southernmost part of French Polynesia.
During the austral (Southern Hemisphere) winter, whales migrate to areas rich in food, particularly the northwestern coast of Africa, the Gulf of Aden, and the Bay of Bengal.
All methods involving A. olivacea were carried out in accordance with a protocol reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the Fondo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (FONDECYT, Chile) and the Ethics Committee of the Universidad Austral de Chile (UACh, Chile), as part of the review process for the Fondecyt Research Grant 1110737.
One of these calves, a female of eight months, was submitted to the Department of Animal Pathology at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile for necropsy.
A urine sample was collected by puncturing the bladder and sent to the Leptospirosis and Paratuberculosis Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.
The University of Chile is the main recipient, followed by the Catholic University of Chile, the University of Santiago, the Universidad Austral de Chile, the Universidad de Concepción, and a couple more universities.
The pennant-wing nightjar (Cosmetornis vexillarius), in contrast, nests in the Southern Hemisphere south of the Congo forests during the austral, or Southern Hemisphere, summer, then starts north with the onset of the rainy season.
