Tag: Tierra del Fuego

• 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.

• Thursday, September 23rd 2021 - 19:51 UTC

  Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego announces herd immunity achieved

  

  The Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, which technically includes the Falkland Islands and other British Overseas Territories, has achieved herd immunity against COVID-19, Health Minister Carla Vizzotti announced Thursday.

• Tuesday, September 7th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina/Chile continental shelf dispute: “beware about arousing nationalism in electoral processes”

  

  The controversy between Chile and Argentina regarding continental shelf limits south of Tierra del Fuego has triggered a series of exchanges, some public, others more low-key, but there is a growing consensus that any solution must emerge from the bilateral dialogue.

• Thursday, August 26th 2021 - 08:33 UTC

  Celebration in Ushuaia: cruise season authorized to begin on 20 October

  

  It's official, Argentina announced the opening of the 2021/2022 bi-oceanic and Antarctic cruise season next 20 October. The administrative resolution 834/2021 was published in the Official Gazette, triggering immediate satisfaction from Tierra del Fuego province whose governor contacted the Tourism and Sports minister Matías Lammens.

• Wednesday, August 25th 2021 - 07:57 UTC

  Argentina prosecution sustains Tierra del Fuego bill banning salmon breeding

  

  Argentina's Prosecution office considered that the Tierra del Fuego province bill establishing limits, and rulings for the breeding and production of salmon species in provincial jurisdictional waters “do not exceed limits of the reasonable” and besides were approved by the Legislative in “the full exercise of its environmental competence, which privilege the conservation of natural resources above considerations of other nature”.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 05:08 UTC

  Ushuaia encouraged by a promising winter holidays season

  

  It's winter holidays in Argentina and the season is working out to be far better than expected for Ushuaia in the extreme south of the country, with August expectations also on the bright side.

• Saturday, July 17th 2021 - 07:59 UTC

  Ushuaia names commission to prepare Malvinas war 40th anniversary

  

  Ushuaia officials and Malvinas war veterans have been meeting to start preparing the agenda of commemorations for the fortieth anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict next year.

• Thursday, July 1st 2021 - 09:42 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego approves bill banning salmon farming in its waters; Chilean environmentalist groups cheer the decision

  

  Tierra del Fuego lawmakers on Wednesday approved, unanimously the bill which bans salmon farming in the waters of the province. Sponsored by Pablo Villegas from the provincial party, Movimiento Popular Fueguino, the bill privileges the environment over such an industry, and according to its promoters places Argentina at the head of the green economy.