During the congress which wrote the country's first constitution, there were two prominent proposals for the country's name. The Chilean settlers supported "Santiago", a common name for the region with unclear origins. The Chileans claimed that the name (which translates as "Saint James") was religious in nature, but the Argentines opposed it on the grounds that the name is shared by the capital of Chile. The Argentine counterproposal was to name the country after "Berkner Bay", the geographic region it occupies. This name was also problematic, as it emphasized the British discovery of the region: Berkner Bay is named after its discoverer, the English explorer James Berkner.