Tierra del Fuego

[ tee-er-uh del fwey-goh; Spanish tyer-rah thel fwe-gaw ]

noun

1. a group of islands at the S tip of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: jointly owned by Argentina and Chile; boundary disputed. 27,476 sq. mi. (71,165 sq. km).

Tierra del Fuego

/ ˈtjɛrra ðɛl ˈfweɣo /

noun

1. an archipelago at the S extremity of South America, separated from the mainland by the Strait of Magellan: the west and south belong to Chile, the east to Argentina. Area: 73 643 sq km (28 434 sq miles)

Example Sentences

In his 20s he went on several long-distance cycling trips, including a 24,568-kilometer crossing of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, which his team completed in a record 310 days.

From Science Magazine

Within indigenous Yagán communities in Tierra del Fuego, foxes played an important role.

From Salon

Tax exemptions created in Tierra del Fuego to lure people to the province led to the development of a manufacturing hub that today produces almost all cell phones and television sets in Argentina.

From Los Angeles Times

Among the more unsettling shocks in “The Settlers,” a harrowing, historically based drama that takes place in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago in the southernmost part of South America, is its time period.

From New York Times

“There is no evidence that overall numbers of rufa red knots have declined recently,” the agency said in a commentary published in May that cited a “low but stable” wintering population in Tierra del Fuego.

From New York Times