City map of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
City map of Ushuaia, province of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida e Islas del Atlántico Sur, Argentina.
Ushuaia is a city of Argentina in the department Ushuaia and capital of the province of Tierra del Fuego. It was founded on October 12, 1884 by Augusto Lasserre in Fort Ushuaia on the site of the Convent of "San Uriel Arcángel de los Gloriosos Vientos Australes", the city is located on the shores of the Isla Grande of Tierra del Fuego that overlook the Ushuaia Bay in the Beagle Channel, and is surrounded by the Martial Mountains range. Besides being an administrative center, it is an industrial, port and tourist hub.
Ushuaia is generally considered the southernmost city in the world. Hammerfest in Norway is the most boreal so both are twinned cities (like Barrow, in Alaska, which disputes the northernmost qualification). Ushuaia is, also, the only Argentine city that is located on the western side of the Andes.
According to the classification of the seas of the International Hydrographic Organization, it is also the only Argentine port on the Pacific, provided that the Beagle channel is considered part of that ocean. The Argentine State, however, considers the aforementioned canal as an interoceanic passage, since otherwise it would contradict the border treaties signed with Chile.
Ushuaia is located 120 km (in a straight line) from Rio Grande in the same province, 251 km from Punta Arenas in the Magallanes Region, Chile and 2377 km from Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina and 1150 km separate it from Esperanza Base, Antarctica Argentina.
