Port Famine, the name given by Cavendish in 1587 to a spot in Patagonia on the north coast of the Straits of Magellan. From 1843 to 1853 it was a Chilian penal colony.
Port Famine
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 332
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