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The estancia was named for Harberton, the home of his wife, Mary Ann Varder (1842-1922), in Devon, England. Bridges was the author of a dictionary of the Yámana or Yaghan language , and their son Lucas Bridges (1874-1949) wrote The Uttermost Part of the Earth about his boyhood, the Yahgan people , and the family's adventures in getting the ...
Harberton is a village, civil parish and former manor 3 miles south west of Totnes, in the South Hams District of Devon, England. The parish includes the village of Harbertonford situated on the main A381 road. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,285. [1] The village is a major part of the electoral ward of Avon and Harbourne
In 1898 Lucas Bridges opened a trail north from Estancia Harberton to the east end of Lago Fagnano, where the land was better for rearing sheep. It has been improved as a hiking trail known as the Lucas Bridges Trail. [4] In 1902 Lucas and his brothers Despard and Will founded Estancia Viamonte in the northern part of Tierra del Fuego.
Bridges later gave them space on his property, Estancia Harberton, in an effort to protect them from encroachment and attacks by Europeans. He worked to learn their language, Yahgan. Through the late 1870s, Bridges continued his major work: compiling an English–Yahgan - Yahgan–English dictionary and a grammar of the Yahgan language.
Estancia Moat is a large farm in southern Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego facing Beagle Channel. It is the southernmost cattle farm in the World. [ 1 ] Estancia moat is connected by road to Estancia Harberton and Ushuaia .
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[3] [4] [5] She married James Spencer Pomeroy (1836–1912) on 2 April 1861, and in 1862 she became Viscountess Harberton when he became the 6th Viscount Harberton. They had four children, Aline Florence, Hilda Evelyn, Ernest Arthur George (1867–1944, 7th Viscount), and Ralph Legge (1869–1956, 8th Viscount). [1] [2]