USHUAIA, Tierra del Fuego

 

 

The Beagle Channel:







"The Professor:" this boat was going to Antarctica.

 

Beaver DAMage. The park's literature read:
"The man with economic purpose" introduced the beaver to Tierra del Fuego.

 

The place has a pretty grim history — english missionaries, the original Fuegians killed off,
hunted down by settlers and sheep farmers and infected by diseases they brought, a military prison...


the prison museum was very strange —the assortment of displays was a bit haphazard. In one cell there'd be an account of a prisoner, in another an Antarctic expedition and ship model. The prison life descriptions were a bit... pale, and almost 'wacky'. Bruce Chatwin ("In Patagonia") for example writes a much more vivid account of Radowitzky, the famous anarchist who was held prisoner there.
They had done a bit more to him than deny him his maté.

A sweet woman at the museum gave me this flower for Woman's Day.

The town is a mix of free-for-all new construction, 'end of the world' tourism, and small shacks.

That's Glaciar Martial in the background.