Q 01/05

Which animal did Argentina bring to Tierra del Fuego from Canada in 1946, hoping to start a fur trade?

A) Beaver

B) Raccoon

C) Marten

D) Wolverine

Answer · why

A) Beaver

Beaver numbers exploded because Tierra del Fuego has few predators to hunt them, and the damage to its forests has been called the biggest since the l...

Q 02/05

Tierra del Fuego was named in 1520 after sailors on a Spanish expedition saw what along its coastline?

A) Erupting volcanoes

B) Native campfires

C) Red autumn forests

D) Blood-red sunsets

Answer · why

B) Native campfires

Native campfires lit the shore, and the expedition's leader feared the islanders were waiting in the forests to ambush his ships.

Q 03/05

Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego grew up around which institution, closed by President Juan Perón in 1947?

A) A whaling port

B) A leper colony

C) A prison

D) A naval academy

Answer · why

C) A prison

A prison for repeat offenders was Argentina's way of planting settlers on the island, modelled on Britain's convict colony in Tasmania.

Q 04/05

The Southern Fuegian Railway near Ushuaia, the southernmost working line on Earth, is marketed as the Train of what?

A) The Last Frontier

B) The Antarctic Gateway

C) The Lost Glaciers

D) The End of the World

Answer · why

D) The End of the World

The End of the World is how Ushuaia sells nearly everything, and its little steam train runs into Tierra del Fuego National Park on track just 500 mm ...

Q 05/05

Cape Horn, the stormy southern tip of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, is named after a port in which country?

A) Great Britain

B) Portugal

C) Netherlands

D) Denmark

Answer · why

C) Netherlands

Merchants from the Netherlands port of Hoorn helped fund the 1616 voyage that first rounded the cape, and one of its two ships carried the town's name...