16 Facts About Ushuaia

Ushuaia is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antartida e Islas del Atlantico Sur Province, Argentina.

Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the Martial mountain range and on the south by the Beagle Channel.

The southern group of people indigenous to the area, the Yaghan, who occupied what is Ushuaia, lived in continual conflict with the northern inhabitants of the island.

Ushuaia was founded informally by British missionaries, following previous British surveys, long before Argentine nationals or government representatives arrived there on a permanent basis.

The name Ushuaia first appears in letters and reports of the South American Mission Society in England.

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The first house constructed in Ushuaia was a pre-assembled three room home prepared in the Falkland Islands in 1870 for Reverend Thomas Bridges.

Ushuaia wrote a dictionary of the Yaghan language, the original manuscript of which is in the British Museum.

Ushuaia suffered several epidemics, including typhus, pertussis, and measles, that much reduced the native population.

Ushuaia is located on Ushuaia Bay at 6 meters above sea level, surrounded to the west, north, and east by the Andes Fueguinos.

Ushuaia has long been described as the southernmost city in the world.

In 2015 Ushuaia hosted the first PATHF Snow Handball Panamerican Championship.

Ushuaia has twelve secondary schools, four of which provide adult education.

The Colegio Nacional de Ushuaia is one of the newest schools in the city and was modeled after the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.

Ushuaia has two television stations, channel 11 and channel 13.

Ushuaia receives regular flights at Ushuaia – Malvinas Argentinas International Airport from El Calafate, Buenos Aires and Santiago, Chile.

Trees in Ushuaia tend to follow the wind direction, and are therefore called "flag-trees", for their uni-directional growth pattern.