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S 54° 51.106
W 68° 30.945

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Tierra del Fuego National Park

Picture of Tierra del Fuego National Park (Argentina): Bahía Lapataia with small islandsWhile the quiet waters give the impression of being a lake, I had to be reminded by my friend that we were hiking along the sea as we continued our way west. Once upon a time, though, what is now the Beagle Channel was actually a huge glacier, which developed into a lake; only at a later stage, with the rising of the sea level, a link to the sea was established. It explains the landscape of rocks and mountains: this basically is one gigantic moraine. Small inlets of the sea, with islands, proved a paradise for birds of which we saw many. Above and behind us, now, we could see snow-covered hills: the snow-line was still very low; so was the tree-line. We were now approaching the end of the Ruta Nacional 3, which is also the end of the Panamericana highway, leading down the Americas all the way from Alaska. Memories came back: I had seen a pole with worn shoes, left by people who had walked all the way down the Americas, notes by cyclists, and other memorabilia, near a small sign in the woods at the very end of the road. However, things looked very different now. A parking lot could accommodate both cars and buses, while a path continued beyond the end of the road; there was no sign of anything left by those travelers who had made it all the way from Alaska. Moreover, a small crowd was waiting for a minivan to go back to Ushuaia on the complicated transportation system. We walked the boardwalk over the boulders - which offered fantastic views over the Bahía Lapataia and beyond. Yes, things had changed here, but then again, what remains is the desolate landscape of islands, rocks, trees, mountains, snow - giving the environment a timeless, centuries-old feel.

Visited: April 1994, November 2011

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