This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The fjords and islands of Chilean Patagonia take the brunt of the prevailing westerlies that wail across the ...

A tourism brochure for New Zealand's Waitomo Caves from 1928 What ... What may be less well-known is that Patagonia is home to a beautiful cave known as the marble cathedral.

The Marble Caves are natural ... was when the process of sculpting the [caves] began," Francisco Hervé Allamand, a professor of geology at Andrés Bello National University in Chile and an ...