tierra del fuego in English

noun
1
an island off the southern tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan. Discovered by Ferdinand Magellan in 1520, it is now divided between Argentina and Chile.

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1. In the extreme south, a major transform fault separates Tierra del Fuego from the small Scotia Plate.

2. Prudence is located at the Bottommost tip of the heart -- its Tierra del Fuego/Strait of Magellan.

3. Its distribution extends from Ecuador and Peru to the southern regions of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

4. 10 Disease, displacement and alien acrimony caused these people to all but disappear from Tierra del Fuego.

5. Andes meridionales: desde el nevado Tres Cruces hasta la isla de los Estados, al este de Tierra del Fuego

6. Reproductive biology and energy allocation of the sea star Cosmasterias lurida (Echinodermata: Asteroidea) from the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina

7. The Strait of Magellan comprises a navigable sea route immediately south of mainland South America and north of Tierra del Fuego.

8. In the 1940s, beavers were brought from Canada to the island of Tierra Del Fuego in southern Chile and Argentina, for commercial fur production.

9. 29 Darwin visited Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti and Tasmania, along with other exotic locales, but he never set foot in the United States.

10. If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth , you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer: but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

11. The British ship HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, first reached the channel on January 29, 1833, during its maiden voyage surveying Tierra del Fuego.

12. Tierra del Fuego is divided between Chile and Argentina, with the latter controlling the eastern half of the main island and the former the western half plus the islands south of Beagle Channel.