According to one TripAdvisor user, "A visit to Punta Arenas wouldn't be complete without stopping at the Memorial to Ferdinand Magellan and rubbing the foot on the statue (a local custom)." ...

Three plaques remembering prominent explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Discovery, who used the Chilean port of Punta Arenas as their home base when carrying out Antarctic explorations ...

In Punta Arenas the Austral Ports Company, EPA, is looking forward to 186 calls, of which 121 in Punta Arenas itself, with some 100,000 visitors, which compares with the 123 and over 76,000 ...