Ushuaia is a nice little town nestled on the edge of the Beagle Channel, surrounded by spectacularly beautiful mountains. While there I visited the prison museum where I was able to speak to several model prisoners (see first picture). The Beagle Channel is so named, according to local Yamana indian mythology, because after the extinction of the dinosaurs a pack of hunting dogs appeared from Britain and started to dig for the bones of dinosaurs, which were so much larger than the meagre rations they had had to contend with in their homeland. Details of how they arived at Tierra del Fuego from Britain seem to have been lost in the mists of time. Anyway, they dug a trench from one side of Tierra del Fuego to the other, but unfortunately one night the sea
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