Cook Island, also known as London Island, is an island located in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. It lies west of Gordon Island, south of O'Brien Island...
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consists of the main island, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, with an area of 48,100 km2 (18,572 sq mi), and a group of many islands, including Cape Horn...
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Fuegians (redirect from Tierra del Fuegians)
Fuegians are the indigenous inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America. The name has been credited to Captain James Weddell...
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Isla de los Estados (redirect from Staten Island, Argentina)
range of the roots") is an Argentine island that lies 29 kilometres (18 mi) off the eastern extremity of Tierra del Fuego, from which it is separated by the...
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Selk'nam people (category Indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego)
Patagonian region of southern Argentina and Chile, including the Tierra del Fuego islands. They were one of the last native groups in South America to be...
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a district from 1798 to 1849 London Island (Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego), an island east of Londonderry Island and south of Cockburn Channel London...
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Haush (category Indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego)
Indigenous people who lived on the Mitre Peninsula of the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego. They were related culturally and linguistically to the Selk'nam (also...
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Beagle Channel (category Landforms of Tierra del Fuego)
channel separates the larger main island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego from various smaller islands including the islands of Picton, Lennox and Nueva;...
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Yahgan people (category Indigenous peoples in Tierra del Fuego)
America. Their traditional territory includes the islands south of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, extending their presence into Cape Horn, making them...
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Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile Cook Island, Kiritimati, Kiribati Cook Island, South Sandwich Islands Cook Rock, South Sandwich Islands Cook Mountains...
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Thomas Bridges (missionary) (category Anglican mission in Tierra del Fuego)
shore of Tierra del Fuego Island. Ordained and married during a trip to Great Britain in 1868–1869, Bridges returned to the Falkland Islands with his...
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there from Tierra del Fuego. They taught them farming and English, and some of the British party learned Yamana (or Yahgan). In 1885, the island was developed...
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Londonderry Island, Hoste Island, Olga Island and Gordon Island southwest of Tierra del Fuego in Chile. The bay forms an entrance to the Beagle Channel, the Ballenero...
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southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south. The strait is considered the most important natural passage...
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Sandwich Islands, also claimed by Argentina as part of Tierra del Fuego province. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook, who...
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Allen Gardiner (schooner) (category Anglican mission in Tierra del Fuego)
the SE coast of the main island of Tierra del Fuego in 1852, after resupply was delayed. The schooner was sailed to Keppel Island, Falklands, to support...
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South American Mission Society (category Anglican mission in Tierra del Fuego)
Cardiff on the Clymene on 7 January 1848. They landed at Picton Island in Tierra del Fuego on 23 March. After being harassed by the natives, Gardiner's party...
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Cook Bay (Antarctica), on the George V Coast Cook Bay (Tierra del Fuego), south of Tierra del Fuego Cook's Bay (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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Bahia Buen Suceso (category Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego)
western shore of Le Maire Strait, which separates Tierra del Fuego and Isla de los Estados (Staten Island). The bay was named during the Garcia de Nodal...
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occupied the island. Argentina continues to claim sovereignty over South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands as part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antártida...
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observe the transit of Venus. Cook then set sail into the largely uncharted ocean to the south, stopping at the Pacific islands of Huahine, Borabora and Raiatea...
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Striated caracara (category Birds of Tierra del Fuego)
striated caracara during their visit to Staten Island (Isla de los Estados, east of Tierra del Fuego). The drawing is dated 3 January 1775 and is now...
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islands to be part of the Islas del Atlántico Sur Department of Tierra del Fuego Province. The claim to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is...
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Rock shag (category Birds of Tierra del Fuego)
the account made by Georg Forster of his visit to Tierra del Fuego in December 1774 during James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific. The rock shag was...
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considered the northern limit of Argentine Patagonia. The archipelago of Tierra del Fuego is sometimes included as part of Patagonia. Most geographers and historians...
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Alberto de Agostini National Park (category Tierra del Fuego)
Antártica Chilena region, stretching over three provinces: (Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego and Antártica Chilena). The park features a highly irregular coastline...
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Willem Schouten's rounding of Cape Horn proved that Tierra del Fuego was a relatively small island, while in 1642 Abel Tasman's first Pacific voyage proved...
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Alexander Buchan (artist) (category James Cook)
he had two documented seizures, the first during an expedition in Tierra del Fuego. Buchan died after the second seizure, shortly after Endeavour's arrival...
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collected a specimen of the tree in Tierra del Fuego during Captain Cook's first voyage. Its occurrence on Hornos Island earns it the distinction of being...
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