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Puerto Williams, population: 1,868), located on Isla Navarino, is the southernmost town in the world on the southern shore of the Beagle Channel.
Ushuaia (/ uːˈswaɪ.ə / oo-SWY-ə, Spanish: [uˈswaja]) is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina. With a population of 82,615 and a location below the 54th parallel south latitude, Ushuaia claims the title of world's southernmost city.
Ushuaia is the capital of the island Tierra del Fuego in Argentina, and arguably claims the title of world's southernmost city. Ushuaia is now a major tourist town, complete with wide range...
Puerto Williams (Spanish: [ˈpweɾto ˈ (ɣ)wiljams]; Spanish for "Port Williams") is a city, port and naval base on Navarino Island in Chile, and is also the southernmost populated settlement in the world. It faces the Beagle Channel.
The southernmost settlements of the world refer to the cities, towns, villages, military and research bases, or weather stations that are located farther south than 45°S latitude. Since Antarctica is the southernmost continent of the world, most of the world’s southernmost places are located there.
The port town of Ushuaia is a special place. Surrounded by majestic snow-capped mountains and the Beagle Channel, not only is it the gateway to Antarctic cruises, but it’s also the world’s most southern city.
Ushuaia is the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur Province, Argentina. It is commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world. Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the Martial mountain range, and on the south by the Beagle Channel.
One of the southernmost cities in the world, Ushuaia sits at the bottom tip of Argentina on the island of Tierra del Fuego. Dubbed the End of the World and operating as the main gateway to Antarctica.
Puerto Williams is the capital of the Chilean Antarctic Province, and it too claims the title of world's southernmost city. But because of the town’s small size and population, that claim is not taken too seriously.
On the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, at the southern tip of South America, sits the Argentinian city of Ushuaia, known as the southernmost city in the world, or sometimes, “the end of the world.”