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Tierra del Fuego

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

How To Use Tierra del Fuego In A Sentence

  • Suddenly I was on the barren playas of Tierra del Fuego, the broiling ground belching huge clouds of sulfurous gases into the heavy atmosphere.
  • Disease, displacement and alien acrimony caused these people to all but disappear from Tierra del Fuego.
  • En masse, they joined, creating an instant archduchy (Tierra del Fuego) in 1996.
  • Argentina lives and breathes football, from the northern border with Bolivia down to the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego.
  • We're probably picking up some religious broadcast from Tierra del Fuego bouncing off that new hotel Shimatzu is building.
  • I'd rather cruise the roaring forties off Tierra del Fuego in a garbage scow. THE SHIPPING NEWS
  • Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man; whether those of Brazil, where the powers of Life are predominant, or those of Tierra del Fuego, where Death and decay prevail. "Our Voyage having come to an end..."
  • It is, however, a remarkable coincidence, that in the two large islands cut off by the Beagle Channel from the rest of Tierra del Fuego, one has cliffs composed of matter that may be called stratified alluvium, which front similar ones on the opposite side of the channel, — while the other is exclusively bordered by old crystalline rocks; in the former, called Navarin Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
  • Tierra del Fuego, which extends south-westerly to the Horn, we slipped along at an eight-knot clip. CHAPTER XXXIII
  • Also known as the Goose-beaked whale, this creature is found as far north as the Shetland Islands and as south as Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of South America.
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