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3 unusual facts about Hoste Island


Hoste Island

As of 1894 the Stirling House, a prefab house built on behalf of the South American Mission Society, is reinstalled in Tekenika Bay, on the southeast coast of Hoste Island in order to avoid the abuses and crimes caused by the recent arrival of miners and diseases in Ushuaia.

(Eventually the house has been declared National Monument and was moved on the lands of the Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum in Puerto Williams).

Nothofagus antarctica

Its occurrence on Hoste Island earns it the distinction of being the southernmost tree on earth.


Santa Inés Island

It is the largest island of Punta Arenas municipality and the third largest of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, after Isla Grande and Hoste Island.


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