Located to borders of the Beagle channel (the photo shows the Bay of Ushuaia ) and surrounded by mounts Martial, it offers a unique landscape of tourist attraction, where mountains, sea, glaciers and forests are combined. Its climate, in spite of its geographic location, is not as rigorous as it is created, since the mountains and the sea smooth it.
The misioneras activities of the Anglicans took the initial step in the history of Ushuaia . In 1850 the missionary Allen Gardiner the evangelizacion began of Yamanas that soon it would finish in 1907 with Juan Lawrence. But it was 12th October 1884 when Comodoro Augusto Lasserre it founds the Subprefecture de Ushuaia on fulfillment of Decree 13,185 signed by the then president Julio Argentino Roca in order to seat sovereignty in the Austral Zone, a well-known expedition like Expeditionary Division to the Atlantic Sud. The ceremony took place at noon, in front of the four finished squares almost semi where the new authorities would lodge. There a mast had risen, approximately in the place that today remembers a obelisco that it indicates that that place has been declared historical, although the location only is approximated. Next to that one they formed the disembarked men of the crew, the future inhabitants and the Indians, when the traditional ships gave safe of veintiun the cannon shots when hoisting itself the national flag. Soon they signed that document, the only thing that we have officially of the fact, that more than one hundred years ago, still we are discovering important that the that moment, so simple for them so fundamental for us.

WHAT CANNOT BE LOST!

* Maipu Avenue
A coastal stroll that, along with San Martin Avenue, it constitutes the axis on which the commercial activity of the city is developed. It runs parallel to the coast of the channel of the Beagle and the bay of Ushuaia . On its paths they are the entrance to the tourist wharf and different historical buildings that comprise of the old helmet of you take care of it.
_San Martin Avenue_ The commercial avenue par excellence, yet type of services for the tourist. Is there the house of the descending family of the first Argentinean who lived in Tierra del Fuego, Luis Pedro Fique.

* Museo del Fin del Mundo - Museum of the End of the World -
Maipu Avenue 177
The museum opened its doors the 18th May 1979 in the old branch Ushuaia of the Bank of the Argentina Nation (that worked there until 1978) that it acquired it in 1911.
Constructed in 1903, their walls of 60 centimeters of thickness of rock slate seated with mortar (mixture of clay, sand and lime) were projected to serve like particular house of Mr. Manuel Valdez, secretary of the government and soon governor (1905-1017).
Since its foundation it has tried to maintain a continuous action for the rescue, conservation, investigation and diffusion of the cultural and natural manifestations historical of the province.
In their rooms last testimonies of indigenous cultures are exhibited, of old shipwrecks, of suffered of which outside the jail and a collection of embalsamadas birds. Of which in the main one the imposing silhouette of the large mask of prow stands out of Duchess of Albany, that it was shipwrecked in coasts fueguina in 1893.

* Museo Maritimo y del Antiguo Presidio - Maritime Museum -
Yaganes and Gobernador Paz
_ Old Military prison _ It is commonest the name of "the military prison", the one that was qualified in 1902 to work until 1947. First building constructed by such presidiarios in stone, applying a technique projected by the Engineer Muratgia. It is known historical monuments of the province, made up of five pavilions distributed in radial form.
Per years most of the settlers they had a labor relation with the military prison. The local inhabitants they share anecdotes and mystery that still east building in the present keeps, included by Naval Base. Today she is host of two important museums dedicated to the penitentiary and navigation in the austral seas. The visit constitutes a very recommendable route by the impressive architecture of the prison construction and the hard history of the South end of the American continent.
_ Marine Museum _ The history of Tierra del Fuego it was always bound to the sea.
Even Yamanas they are the unique ones of native marine naval tradition. In 1948 the first commercial flights began. Until that moment the only union with the continent was the marine one. It develops his activities in pavilion Nº 4 of the military prison.

* Aeronavegacion - Air navigation
Interesting option for the visitors who wish to make I fly over in small plane or helicopter, which grants an attractive vision of Ushuaia and its surroundings.