Snipe incident 1958
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Year | 1958 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
|---|---|---|
| Era | Post-1945 (1946 onwards) | derived from year |
| Location | Chile | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | South America | Natural Earth |
| Participants | Argentina, Chile | Wikidata P710 |
| Coordinates | -54.9542, -67.1479 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Snipe incident was a military incident that took place between Chile and Argentina during 1958 as a result of a border dispute in the Beagle Channel.
The two countries disagreed about the sovereign rights over the zone and Snipe, an uninhabitable islet between Picton Island and Navarino Island, claimed by both. Chileans call the waterway around the islet Beagle Channel, but in Argentina they called it Moat channel on the grounds that the Beagle Channel, allegedly, went south around Navarino Island. In accordance with the Beagle Channel Arbitration and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina, it should be called Beagle Channel.
The incident began on 12 January 1958 as the crew of the Chilean Navy transporter Micalvi built a lighthouse on the Snipe islet to improve navigation in the channel. The beacon of the lighthouse was installed on 1 May.
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