I have also been in Punta Arenas. If anything else, the fact that the longest daytime (in December) is almost the whole day should be a good indication that FE "theories" are bunk. The Sun was taking the path that we all expected (a very long path without ever getting very high, giving enough light to not need artificial light from before we woke up till past 9 pm at night).
Leads to the real question - why so many of us here have been to Punta Arenas of all places? Next thing we know we'll have a support group for all of us who went to the Galapagos.
Berny
Err yeah. And Robinson Crusoe Island.
It is a very nice place to do a little natural tourism. But don't go if you want to prove that Earth is flat: you will end like John Davis, making a set of 15 boxes of absolute rubbish and promising a book for years to come.
I had never even heard about a FES when I was there, so I did not take a telescope or a sextant, in which case I could have shown the same observations that so many have done before. We will have to rely on the thousands upon thousands that have navigated through the nearby straights with a sextant and a map, with a sizable risk of death if you get lost. They will tell you that the maps are correct, that the stars are where they expected them to be, that the distances are the ones posted in the maps, and that there are no mysterious 100 knot currents that make you travel as fast as the FE'rs want you to believe.
Even if you do not get anthing else from the trip, you will see that all the "spotlight Sun theories" are bunk. The Sun is way too bright to be the minuscule portion of light that comes from a side of the spotlight and then disperses all around the pancake Earth after being bended in incredible ways to create an illusion.