The Argentine portion of Patagonia includes the provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro, Chubut and Santa Cruz, as well as the eastern portion of Tierra del Fuego archipelago.

The Chilean part of Patagonia embraces the southern part of Valdivia, Los Lagos in Lake Llanquihue, Chiloé, Puerto Montt and the Archaeological site of Monte Verde, also the fiords and islands south to the regions of Aisén and Magallanes, including the west side of Tierra del Fuego and Cape Horn.

They also appear on the flags of the Australian state of Victoria, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, as well as the flag of Magallanes Region of Chile, the flag of Londrina ( Brazil ) and several Argentine provincial flags and emblems ( for example, Tierra del Fuego and Santa Cruz ).

* Cordillera Darwin, Tierra del Fuego

* Mount Darwin ( Andes ), Tierra del Fuego

Consequently, in 1615 Isaac Le Maire and Samuel Blommaert, assisted by others, focused on finding a south-westerly route around the Tierra del Fuego, in order to circumvent the monopoly of the VOC.

Recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia ( on the southern half of East Falkland ) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that suggests the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands.

The first report of his discovery of an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego was written after the 1618 publication of the voyage of Willem Schouten and Jacob le Maire around Cape Horn in 1616.

It considers the archipelago part of the Tierra del Fuego Province, along with South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

-Paleo-Indians reach the Tierra del Fuego.

* Tierra del Fuego of Chile / Argentina was once a peninsula extending south from South America during the great Ice Ages

They might also have used smoke signals on other occasions, thus it is possible that Magellan saw such fires ( which inspired him to name the landscape Tierra del Fuego ) but he may have seen the smoke or lights of natural phenomena.

The three Fuegian missionaries the expedition returned to Tierra del Fuego were friendly and civilised, yet to Darwin their relatives on the island seemed " miserable, degraded savages ", and he no longer saw an unbridgeable gap between humans and animals.

The archipelago consists of a main island Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego divided between Chile and Argentina with an area of, and a group of smaller islands including Cape Horn.

Today's economic activity in the northern part of Tierra del Fuego is dominated by petroleum extraction while in the south tourism, manufacturing and Antarctic logistics are important.

Tierra del Fuego hosts large areas protected as national parks and reserves, most of them in the mountainous south.

Satellite image of Tierra del Fuego

The Yaghan people were some of the earliest known humans settling in Tierra del Fuego, with certain recognizable archeological sites at locations such as Navarino Island within the islands of Tierra del Fuego.

The name Tierra del Fuego derives from the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan sailing for the Spanish Crown, who was the first European to visit these lands in 1520.

The very existence of Tierra del Fuego as one or more islands and not as part of Terra Australis was first inferred by Francisco de Hoces in 1525, then by Francis Drake in 1578 and in 1616 by a Dutch VOC expedition who named Cape Horn.

Four native Fuegians, including " Jemmy Button " ( Orundellico ), were brought from Tierra del Fuego by Robert FitzRoy on his first voyage with the HMS Beagle in 1830.

& Puerta, Pablo ( 2003 ): Description of the earliest fossil penguin from South America and first Paleogene vertebrate locality of Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina.

Tierra Firme later received control over other territories: the Isla de Santiago ( now Jamaica ) the Cayman Islands ; Roncador, Quitasueño, and Providencia and other islands now under Colombian control.

According to the Boundary treaty of 1881 Tierra del Fuego was divided between Argentina and Chile ; previously it was claimed by both countries in its entirety.

The eastern part of the main island, and a few small islands in the Beagle Channel, belong to Argentina, being part of the Tierra del Fuego, Antarctic Territory and South Atlantic Islands Province ; its capital is Ushuaia, the biggest city of the archipelago.

There are six species of tree found in Tierra del Fuego: Canelo or Winter's Bark ( Drimys winteri ), Maytenus magellanica, Pilgerodendron uviferum the southernmost conifer in the world, and three kinds of Southern Beech ; Nothofagus antarctica, Nothofagus pumilio and the evergreen Nothofagus betuloides.

Forests from Tierra del Fuego have expanded beyond local importance ; they have been a source of trees that have been planted abroad in places with practically the same climate but which were originally devoid of trees like Faroe Islands and nearby archipelagos.

At its largest, the continent included Tierra del Fuego, separated from South America by a small strait ; New Guinea ; and what would come to be called Australia.

In November 1774, Cook started from New Zealand and crossed the South Pacific without sighting land between 53 ° and 57 ° S to Tierra del Fuego ; then, passing Cape Horn on 29 December, he rediscovered Roché Island renaming it Isle of Georgia, and discovered the South Sandwich Islands ( named Sandwich Land by him ), the only ice-clad land he had seen, before crossing the South Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope between 55 ° and 60 °.

Some parts of the Tierra Buena CDP have been annexed by the City of Yuba City since 2001 and are therefore within that city's official limits ; however, some territory remains unincorporated.

Colonia Nueva is on Farm Road 493 two miles ( 3 km ) south of Donna ; Colonia Algeria is on River Road and Eleventh Street next to the city dump ; Colonia Tierra Prieta is on the east side of Farm Road 493 ; Colonia Salinas is south of Donna ; and South Donna is a subdivision.

Tierra Prieta also receives water from North Alamo Water Supply Corporation ; it had an estimated population of 180 in 1986.

After Monhegan, he lived for extended periods of time in Newfoundland ( 1914 – 15 ), Alaska ( 1918 – 19 ), Tierra del Fuego ( 1922 – 23 ), Ireland ( 1926 ), and Greenland ( 1929 ; 1931 – 32 ; 1934 – 35 ).

* T. a. tuidara – South American lowlands east of the Andes and south of the Amazon River all the way south to Tierra del Fuego ; also on the Falkland Islands.

WLII's studios are located in Guaynabo ; until 2005, its studios were located in the Puerta de Tierra borough of San Juan.

* Mainland Argentina, as opposed to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and Tierra del Fuego ;

It is also used as opposed to Chiloé Island and Tierra del Fuego ;

As Carpentier became acquainted with those among the arts community he had several encounters to meet other famous authors such as Pablo Neruda, who had sent him a draft of his book “ Residencia el la Tierra ” to review ; Guatemalan author Miguel Ángel Asturias, whose work on pre-Columbian mythology influenced his writing ; and Pablo Picasso, an introduction made possible through Carpentier's connection with friends in the arts.

Departing from Hampton Roads on August 18, 1838, the expedition stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro ; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales ; from Sydney, Australia sailed into the Antarctic Ocean in December 1839 and reported the discovery " of an Antarctic continent west of the Balleny Islands " of which it sighted the coast on January 25, 1840.

He planned an attack on the Isthmus of Panama, known to the Spanish as Tierra Firme and the English as the Spanish Main.

* Heredaran La Tierra ( in Spanish ): Esquemas Biblicos para la Economia Politica ( Biblical Principles for Economics ), 1987 ISBN 0-930464-26-5

* La Liberation Del Planeta Tierra ( in Spanish ) Una Introduction a los prototipos Biblicos, 1987

Soon Spanish expeditions would converge upon Tierra Firma ( also Tierra Firme, Spanish from the Latin terra firma, " dry land " or " mainland ") which served in Spanish colonial times as the name for the Isthmus of Panama

* A Spanish expedition sails around Tierra del Fuego, mapping the coast and discovering the Diego Ramirez Islands.

Francis Drake like Spanish explorers before him had speculated that there might be an open channel south of Tierra del Fuego.

Written accounts of the Tierra Amarilla locality by pathfinding Spanish friars in 1776 described it as suitable for pastoral and agricultural use.

Tierra Amarilla is Spanish for " Yellow Earth ".

The Spanish Army has since stationed a small camp on the Isla de Tierra to discourage new attempts to illegally cross into Spanish territory.

This settlement was first called La Concepcion and Nueva Galvez by Spanish officials, but was later renamed Terre aux Boeufs ( French ) and Tierra de Bueyes ( Spanish ) for " land of cattle ", because nearby areas were used for cattle grazing.

The best-known modern Asturian player is Hevia, whose 1998 Tierra De Nadie was a landmark recording that smashes record sales and became the darling of the Spanish music media.

* Tierra Comunera, a Spanish political party

Other Spanish countries call it " Península Antártica ", among them Argentina ( while also calling it " Tierra de San Martín "), which has more bases and personnel there than any other nation.

* Isla de los Estados ( Spanish translation of the Dutch name ), an island off the coast of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina

* Cádiz ( Vino de la Tierra ), Spanish wine region