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Definition of Tierra del fuego

1. Noun. An archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina.

Definition of Tierra del fuego

1. Proper noun. One of the provinces in Argentina (southern South America). Home of Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, close to Antarctica. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tierra Del Fuego

Literary usage of Tierra del fuego

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Having now finished with I 1 Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, I will describe our first arrival in Tierra del Fuego. A little after noon we doubled Cape ..."

2. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Having now finished with It Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, I will describe our first arrival in Tierra del Fuego. A little after noon we doubled Cape ..."

3. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1890)
"CHAPTER XI Strait of Magellan—Port Famine—Ascent of Mount Tarn—Forests—Edible fungus —Zoology—Great Seaweed—Leave Tierra del Fuego—Climate—Fruit-trees and ..."

4. Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries by Charles Darwin (1890)
"CHAPTER XI Strait of Magellan—Port Famine—Ascent of Mount Tarn—Forests—Edible fungus —Zoology—Great Seaweed—Leave Tierra del Fuego—Climate—Fruit-trees and ..."

5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"Having now finished with IM Patagonia and the Falkland Islands, I will describe our first arrival in Tierra del Fuego. A little after noon we doubled Cape ..."

6. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1914)
"... representing 14 species, collected by Mr. Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History, in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, in 1899-1900. ..."

7. South America: Observations and Impressions by James Bryce Bryce (1912)
"... view of the open sea basin of the Strait, here twenty miles wide, and beyond over the plains of Tierra del Fuego, the great island which lies opposite. ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"They occur on the South African and South American coasts, being found in large flocks at Tierra del Fuego and on the Pacific islands, Australia and New ..."

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