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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 ...
Ushuaia is located roughly 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) ... There are daily bus and boat tours to Harberton, the Bridges family compound, Estancia Harberton.
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.
In 1886, the government of Argentina established a Navy sub-prefecture in Ushuaia. At about age 44, Bridges left the Mission. The government granted him citizenship in Argentina and gave him 50,000 acres (200 km 2) of land to the east of Ushuaia, which he and his family developed as Estancia Harberton. There they raised sheep and cattle. [2]
Harberton Station, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego [54] Pavilion of the raising of the national flag by the Lasserre Expedition; Capilla Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Misión Salesiana, Río Grande; Snow Hill Cabin (Colina Nevada) used by Otto Nordenskiöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition; Former CAP cold storage plant, Río Grande [54]
The Pilot House located at 2 Ann Street in Wilmington, NC. The restaurant was established in 1978 in downtown Wilmington, N.C. KEN BLEVINS/STARNEWS 1978: Pilot House, 2 Ann St., Wilmington
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 .