Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, established on July 22, 1969 and named for the first head of state of Chile, is the largest protected area in the country, spanning about 3,525,901 hectares across the Aysen and Magallanes regions. It borders the Los Glaciares National Park of Argentina and the Torres del Paine National Park of Chile and contains much of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, including the Pio XI (Brueggen) Glacier, the largest glacier in the Southern Hemisphere outside Antarctica at about 1,265 square kilometers, and it has no road access, being reached only by boat or helicopter from gateway towns including Puerto Natales, Villa O'Higgins, Caleta Tortel and Puerto Eden.
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