Los holandeses en las Islas de los Pingüinos (1599-1615)

from the first east-west exploratory voyages of magellan strait sailor crews knew the small islands that appear at the center of the big channel after the segunda angostura and noticed the presence of a rich and abundant resident wildlife. this evidence becomes stronger with the successive passage of dutch sailors for whom the islands became a kind of pantry, a fact valued and subsequently disseminated in the netherlands and europe in narratives, maps and prints, duly highlighted as a clear geographic feature. the article recalls these trips and rectifies a historical fact happened at marta island during oliver van noort′s travel (1599), which in the engravings of the time was mistakenly placed on the coast of tierra del fuego (cape orange) attributing the encounter to the selk’nam of tierra del fuego, instead of the kaweskars as it really happened.