This would be the only currency in existence anywhere between Alaska and Tierra del Fuego.

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Chile and Argentina almost went to war in 1978 over three islands off Tierra del Fuego.

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Tierra del Fuego expeditions depart from Puerto Williams or Ushuaia, and take around two weeks.

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The Peronist party, to which Kirchner belongs, was also defeated in the southern province of Tierra del Fuego.

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At a ceremony in Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, two Argentine men became the first gay people in Latin America to get married.

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Nearer the mainland of Chile and Argentina are the uncharted channels and fjords of Tierra del Fuego the archipelago at the tip of South America.

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It was a limit on phone imports that led Research in Motion to hire Brightstar to make BlackBerrys in Argentina (tax incentives then led the firm to Tierra del Fuego).

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