Anyway, the city has only 63.600 inhabitants, but it has much more to do than one would expect. It's one of the major tourist cities in Argentina and you can go hiking in the Tierra del Fuego National Park, take a catamaran tour in the Beagle Channel (and see penguins in the summer), go skiing in the winter and so on.




It is also the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida y Islas del Atlántico Sur (which, by the Argetinian definition, includes also the Falklands, you can see the Falklands in all Argentinian made maps), which is an oil-producing area in the country and it also gets revenue from it. Ushuaia has also some factories and they're the actual reason for the city having so many inhabitants. Nowadays the industrial park is being transferred to Río Grande, in the nothern part of the island, while Ushuaia is intended to become primarily a tourist city.



Anyway, I don't wanna bore you guys with so much talking, so let's take a look at the pics:





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2 - San Martín street, the busiest shopping area in town

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8 - Ushuaia seen from the other side of the bay

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10 - In these booths you can buy tickets for the boat excursions

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13 - The port - most of the trips to Antarctica begin here

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24 - Sailing off to our boat tour in the Beagle Channel

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27 - Beagle Channel, another 70km and you're in the Atlantic. To the left Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (ARG) and to the right, Isla Navarino (CHI)

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31 - Isla de los Pájaros (Birds' island)

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32 - Les Éclaireurs lighthouse (also known as Faro del Fín del Mundo)

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39 - Naval base of the Argentinian Army, an important base during the Falklands War back in 1982

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45 - Bahía Lapataia, the terminus of National Route 3 that goes all the way from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia

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49 - Ushuaia Airport, which formerly had flights Australia

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50 - Here some pics from my helicopter tour...

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54 - This valley lies behind those mountains behind Ushuaia

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60 - Flying between the mountains to the Beagle Channel

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72 - Ushuaia prison, where the settlement started

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83 - As you can see, it's pretty much far away from everything, closest 1 mio + inhabitant city is Buenos Aires (over 3.000km away)

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91 - And here you can see a doctor exhamining an x-ray in the pub

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