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Tierra del Fuego

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December 15th 2007
Tierra del Fuego Tierra del Fuego; its name sounded so mysterious in my impressionable teens that I took to dreaming I would some day visit this “Land of Fires”, where the first peoples kept themselves warm, 56 degrees south of the equator, by continuously burning the softwood from their forests, producing flames in the night that held the early European explorers, Magellan, Drake and othe ... read more

South America » Argentina » Tierra del Fuego

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Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more