Anyway, the city has only 63.600 inhabitants, but it has much more to do than one would expect. It's one of the major tourist cities in Argentina and you can go hiking in the Tierra del Fuego National Park, take a catamaran tour in the Beagle Channel (and see penguins in the summer), go skiing in the winter and so on.
It is also the capital of Tierra del Fuego, Antártida y Islas del Atlántico Sur (which, by the Argetinian definition, includes also the Falklands, you can see the Falklands in all Argentinian made maps), which is an oil-producing area in the country and it also gets revenue from it. Ushuaia has also some factories and they're the actual reason for the city having so many inhabitants. Nowadays the industrial park is being transferred to Río Grande, in the nothern part of the island, while Ushuaia is intended to become primarily a tourist city.
Anyway, I don't wanna bore you guys with so much talking, so let's take a look at the pics:
1 - Downtown area, the post office in the right
2 - San Martín street, the busiest shopping area in town
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6 - Going down from Martial glacier, there are some nice views from the road
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10 - In these booths you can buy tickets for the boat excursions
11 - Waterfront
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13 - The port - most of the trips to Antarctica begin here
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24 - Sailing off to our boat tour in the Beagle Channel
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32 - Les Éclaireurs lighthouse (also known as Faro del Fín del Mundo)
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39 - Naval base of the Argentinian Army, an important base during the Falklands War back in 1982
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45 - Bahía Lapataia, the terminus of National Route 3 that goes all the way from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia
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49 - Ushuaia Airport, which formerly had flights Australia
50 - Here some pics from my helicopter tour...
51 - In the bottom you can see the industrial zone in the entrance of the city
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54 - This valley lies behind those mountains behind Ushuaia
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60 - Flying between the mountains to the Beagle Channel
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69 - In the top left corner you can see the Paseo del Fuego shopping mall in construction
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73 - Downtown
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83 - As you can see, it's pretty much far away from everything, closest 1 mio + inhabitant city is Buenos Aires (over 3.000km away)
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87 - And a reformed pavillion that serves as a museum nowadays
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90 - La Quiaca is Argentina's Northernmost point
91 - And here you can see a doctor exhamining an x-ray in the pub
