Yagan Usi Territorial Museum
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The Yagan Usi Territorial Museum is an anthropology museum in Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino, in southern Chile. It is the southernmost museum of the world. The museum hosts artifacts, maps and photog
Stirling House, seen from the south. At the right, the museum
Martin Gusinde, priest and ethnologist
Male painted for initiation rite of Selk'nam people
Hoste Island
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Hoste Island is one of the southernmost islands in Chile, lying south, across the Beagle Channel, from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and west of Navarino Island, from which it is separated by the Mu
Yagan Usi Territorial Museum
…Island in 1888. Leonard Burgleigh and his wife lived there as missionaries. In 1894 the house was reinstalled at Tekenika Bay, on the southeast coast of Hoste Island. The missionaries were trying to set up a center in a location away from the abuses and crimes caused by the recent arrival of miners in Ushuaia. The…
A view across the Beagle Channel to Isla Hoste from Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, with the highpoint of the Pensinusla Dumas seen on the left.