GEOGRAPHY
WORLDS
SOUTHERMOST CITY
USHUAIA,
ARGENTINA
Ushuaia,
Argentina, considered the most southermost city of earth, aka
“El
fin del mundo” , or the end of the world, surrounded by the snow
capped peaks of Martial Mountain range and Beagle Channel, with
it's
gun
metal gray water, the gateway to Antarcita with tours to
Isla
Yecapasela, aka “Penguin Island” for the penguin colonies
of
3000
pair of Magellanic penguins, 16 pairs of gentoo penguins and 155
pairs
of rock cormorants.
Ushuaia
is the capitol of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego archipelago at
the
bottom
of South America. The desolate beauty will take you far, far, away
from
home.
The
town has an intriguing history. Once a penal colony with the
most
dangerous
Argentina's criminals who spent most of the time building the
town
with timber from the nearby forests and a railroad.
The
prison today is a museum which railroad tourist are able to visit.
Here
too is the Tierra del Fudgo National Park with scenery of
waterfalls,
forest,
mountains and glaciers. Birds which visitors come to see are
condors,
albatross, cormorants, gulls, terns, oystercatchers, grebes,
kelp
geese,
and the comical, flightless orange billed steamer ducks.
There
is a ship wreck in the harbor, the HMS Justice, aka ,
Saint Christopher, once a rescue tug boat of the Royal Navy in WW
II.
The
high temperature in summer is average 60 degree and winter about
40 degree. It has 7 hours of day light in winter, June, July,
August, and
17
hours of day light in summer, December, January and February.
Abstract:
Weather Channel Travel, by Stephanie Valera, 7 March,
2016,
8 am weather.com
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