Tag: Tierra del Fuego

• Saturday, November 20th 2021 - 09:12 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego soul searching: 25 November, “Day of Selk-nam indigenous people genocide”

  

  The Tierra del Fuego provincial legislative has done some soul searching and has voted unanimously to declare next November 25, “Day of the Selk'nam people genocide.” It will be a day of provincial mourning with flags at half-mast and a non-working day in the extreme south province of Argentina.

• Saturday, October 23rd 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  In Tierra del Fuego, 39% of the population are below the poverty line

  

  Some 39% of the population from the province of Tierra del Fuego are below the poverty line according to the latest numbers from the first half of this year and released by the Argentine official stats office, Indec.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  All ready for the Antarctic cruise season to begin in Ushuaia

  

  Atlas Ocean Voyages has given further details of how they are planning to operate their Antarctic cruises this coming 2021/2022 season from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentine Government extends tax benefits to Tierra del Fuego

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández has extended the so-called industrial promotion regime for the Province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and South Atlantic Islands (which technically includes British Overseas Territories like the Falkland Islands claimed by Argentina), it was announced.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Ushuaia honours descendants of ten original families settled a century ago

  

  The mayor of Ushuaia, capital of Tierra del Fuego province, extreme south of Argentina honoured the descendants of ten original families that settled in the territory over a century ago. The ceremony headed by Mayor Walter Vuoto, lawmakers and members of his cabinet, took place at the Monument to the Tierra del Fuego pioneers, with the unveiling of a plaque in remembrance of the ten families represented by their descendants.

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 09:25 UTC

  Argentina votes funds for the construction of a Logistic Pole in Ushuaia

  

  The Argentine government has earmarked some 70 million dollars, in three years, for the construction of an Antarctic Logistic Pole in Ushuaia, capital of the extreme south province of Tierra del Fuego. Some US$ 25 million will be invested next year to begin the development of the strategic project aimed at consolidating Ushuaia as the support hub for scientific research in Antarctica.

• Thursday, October 14th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  The long march of Tierra del Fuego before becoming a full province

  

  The evolution of Argentine Tierra del Fuego from an incorporated national territory to a full province, in over a century and a half, has been described by Patagonia historian Bernardo Veksler, who usually contributes with the Diario del Fin del Mundo, edited in Ushuaia.

• Saturday, October 9th 2021 - 09:09 UTC

  Ushuaia confirms 243 cruise calls and National Geographic Endurance will open the 2021/22 season November 7

  

  The port of Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego province confirmed that this cruise season 2021/22, a total of 37 vessels will make 243 calls between November and March next year. The National Geographic Endurance will inaugurate the season when it arrives next November 7 with 126 passengers.

• Friday, October 8th 2021 - 09:44 UTC

  Antarctica cruises Atlas Ocean Voyages will operate from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego celebrates

  

  An Antarctica cruise company, Atlas Ocean Voyages will begin operating from Ushuaia, the capital of the extreme south Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego. According to local media reports, the first call out of fifteen will take place next November.

• Friday, September 24th 2021 - 18:39 UTC

  Now they say Tierra del Fuego did not achieve herd immunity against COVID-19

  

  Argentina's Health Ministry has announced Minister Carla Vizzotti had not said Thursday morning that the province of Tierra del Fuego, which technically comprises British Overseas Territories such as the Falkland Islands, had achieved herd immunity against COVID-19.