FEATURE


Ushuaia: the end of t W


Ushuaia, the word itself


along with its most famous accolade – world’s most


southern city – has an almost mythical ring to it.


ith the Beagle Channel on one side, the snowcapped Martial Range on the other and the nearby Antarctica


intoxicating travellers with its guaranteed ‘experience of a lifetime’, you’d be forgiven for expecting a spiritual epiphany of some sort.


Its colourful history reveals the brutal reality of colonialism. In 1870, when the British-based South American Missionary Society set its sights on the Yaghan people, Ushuaia was its fi rst outpost. Religious saviour was not all they brought with them. Six thousand years of isolation made the Yaghan vulnerable to foreign-brought illnesses and settlers. From the late 1880’s until 1947, Argentina turned the city into a penal colony. Interestingly, much of the town was built by the very prisoners who were held captive there. Nowadays, Ushuaia is famed as the departure point for much anticipated trips to Antarctica.


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