Smyth Channel

Its south arm is the southward continuation of the Sarmiento Channel and is located in Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region.

The channel is flanked by mountain ranges of exposed granite that at their foothills have limited vegetation cover, because the continuous winds that blow against it.

In the vicinity of its south arm is Monte Burney, which lie on Muñoz Gamero Peninsula in mainland.

On the south branch, there are a number of lighthouses, buoys and beacons as a pilotage aid, which are located specialty at the passes Summer and Shoal, and at the channels Gray and Mayne, all of which lie along its course.

In the Shoal Pass lies the hull of the wrecked ship SS Santa Leonor and at its southern end lie the wrecked steamships Moraleda, Magada, Ponte Verde and Recreo[1] The channel was named in 1829 by the British sailors Skyring and Graves, members of Captain Phillip Parker King's survey, in honour of the naval officer W.H.