Panorama Photo

"Mar interno, hijo del manto patrio, que cubre la Cordillera en la inmensa soledad, la naturaleza que te hizo no te dió nombre. La voluntad humana desde hoy te llamará "Lago Argentino". Que mi bautismo te sea propicio; que no olvides quien te lo dió y que el día en que el hombre reemplace al puma y al guanaco, nuestros actuales vecinos; cuando en tus orillas se conviertan en cimientos de ciudades los trozos erráticos que tus antiguos hielos abandonarían en ellas; cuando las velas de los buques se reflejen en tus aguas, como hoy lo hacen los gigantes témpanos y dentro de un rato la vela de mi bote; cuando el silbido del vapor reemplace el grito del cóndor que hoy nos cree presa fácil; le recuerden los humildes soldados que le precedieron, para revelarse a él, que en este momento pronuncian el nombre de la patria bautizándote con tus propias aguas!"

With this speech Francisco Pascasio Moreno, the future Perito of the Argentinian Border Commission, "christened" the then nameless lake that he had just reached, after having ascended the whole of the Rio Santa Cruz. "Nature, who created you, did not give you a name - from now on, human will will call you Argentino".
The view is taken from a little summit of the bulky mountain occupying the whole of Peninsula Magallanes, which on maps is sometimes called Cordón Buenos Aires.
The Betracher complains that, whereas the title promises about lakes and Peritos, the view opens on no lake, and on dull mountains instead. But the point is that, behind these dull mountains, secretly the lake still stretches its long arms, namely the Canal de los Tempanos (of the icebergs) and the Brazo Rico, separated only by the tongue of a glacier which is called - try to guess - Perito Moreno, although is was neither reached nor seen by the latter.

While I collect some more lines to feed into this description (and I have still work pending from the last week, and from its San Lorenzo...), the Betrachter can find more information on
es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Pascasio_Moreno
www.losglaciares.com/es/parque/biogmoreno.html
The latter page is one of the few reporting the whole "Bautismo del Lago Argentino", with whom I made acquaintance in the Glaciarium of El Calafate, a wonderful museum which has been built on the shore of the lake few kilometers outside the town, of course on the road to the perhaps most famous glacier in the world.

22 HF, Canon G1X, 57 mm equiv, f/6.3, 1/100 sec.

In the larger version linked below, at the very beginning, people familiar with the Paine shapes will easily recognize the snowy back of Cerro Almirante Nieto. Unfortunately, right of it the Torres are shrouded in clouds.

Larger: https://goo.gl/U6P7dn
GPS track: http://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=17192613