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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 1886 Thomas Bridges resigned his position as a missionary; Lucas helped his father to create the Estancia Harberton (named after his mother's hometown in England), a sheep farming ranch, in a sheltered bay on the coast of the Beagle Channel. The location was a Yahgan safe port.
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.
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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 .
Arms of de Vautort family, feudal barons of Trematon, Cornwall, and later feudal barons of Harberton, Devon: Argent, three bends gules a bordure sable bezantée. [2] A bordure bezantée is a feature in the arms of many families which held under the overlordship of the Earls of Cornwall
Ushuaia is located on Ushuaia Bay at 6 meters above sea level, surrounded to the west, north, and east by the Andes Fueguinos. It is the only city accessed from the rest of the country by crossing part of the Andes mountain range, which runs along the southern edge of Tierra del Fuego .