The birth of Ushuaia
In 1950 Juan Domingo Perуn’s regime created a major nautical base.
This creation was intended to help sustain Argentina’s claim to a share of Antarctica.
It only became a tourist destination visited by many cruise ships as well as overland travelers and air passengers when the military dictatorship ended on 1983.
Claimed to be the world’s southernmost capital; its population in 1999 was estimated at 57,300. Ushuaia was originally named by early British colonists after the name that the native Yбmana people had for the area.