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Scenery in Tierra del Fuego  
   

Scenery in Tierra del Fuego

Very pretty; often cloudy and hard to photograph
Ushuaia and the Beagle Channel

February 7th 2009
The city of Ushuaia now has 55-60,000 residents, depending on your source. It is growing very quickly and you can see the typical boom-town hodgepodge of new construction and older run-down houses and buildings still being used. Since Ushuaia is the jumping off place for Antartic cruises as well as boat trips in the Beagle Channel and is a backpacker/ trekker/ outdoors recreation destinatio ... read more
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Argentine Flag 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
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