Across the Andes at the End of the World

ISLA, FEDERICO IGNACIO; ZARATE; VILAS, F

JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

COASTAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Lugar: Florida; Año: 2020 vol. 101 p. 194 - 196

0749-0208

In 1985, six coastal geologists (Silvia Lendaro, Gustavo González Bonorino, Jorge Fasano - all from the National Research Council of Argentina, and the authors) crossed the Andes Cordillera at the Eastern extreme of the Isla Grande of Argentina?s Tierra del Fuego (Peninsula Mitre). Departing by truck from Ushuaia, Argentina, which lies along the Beagle Channel, we arrived at San Pablo Cape on the Atlantic coast of the island (Figure 1). A helicopter carried us in groups to Valentín Bay, an ancient fjord facing south and very close to the Le Maire Strait. We stayed at a research campsite where archaeologists were digging old human occupations sites (Figure 2), located very close to a Nothofagus forest (barren) that is impacted by strong southerly winds.