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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An archipelago off southern South America separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan. The main island, also called Tierra del Fuego, is divided between Chile and Argentina. Smaller islands of the archipelago are administered individually by the two countries.
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- proper noun One of the provinces in
Argentina (southern South America). Home of Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, close to Antarctica.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina
Etymologies
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Cinderella, however, can't be as vacuous as she seems on the first page, when she narrates that Tierra del Fuego translates as "land of fire" and then wonders why it's so cold.
What I bought – 19 March 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Tierra del Fuego, which is divided between Argentina and Chile.
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The Straits of Magellan divide the main continent of South America from a group of islands, called Tierra del Fuego, and Cape Horn is the most southerly point of this archipelago.
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The group of islands called Tierra del Fuego, in which the chain of the
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The group of islands called Tierra del Fuego, in which the chain of the Andes begins, is a plain extending from Cape
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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While the war continued overseas, Freund focused on producing documentary reportage and films on remote areas such as Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia in 1944, and continued her travels through Chile, Peru and Bolivia, Brazil and Ecuador.
Gis��le Freund. 2009
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Because he saw the fires built by the natives blazing on the islands along the south side of the channel, he called them Tierra del Fuego, meaning "Land of Fire."
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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In the end we chose a boat trip out on the Beagle Channel - a strait that separates the islands in the Tierra del Fuego which is about 240 kilometers long.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The once contemplative pursuit has became in most places - even out-of-the-way locations such as Tierra del Fuego,
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The once contemplative pursuit has became in most places - even out-of-the-way locations such as Tierra del Fuego,
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