Talk:Tierra del Fuego

Pictures

I just added a picture of the lighthouse in Ushuaia but i am not sure if it should in fact belong to the Ushuaia article instead of here.

Pictures of Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego and Argentina can be found here :

http://www.chmouel.com/geeklog/gallery/gallery_individual.php/argentina/

Chmouel Boudjnah 18:19, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

They'd look good on both articles, I guess. --snoyes 18:21, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I would think, but am by no means sure, that a native of Tierra del Fuego would be a English-- it sounds a bit more euphonious than "Fuegian" to me. 199.196.144.11 17:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)Blondlieut@aol.com

Merge

I reoder the article and add a merge on Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego - Jor70 18:43, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, the problem is that Tierra del Fuego is an archipielago, while Isla Grande is the main island in the archipielago, so technically they are not the same thing. I'm not sure they should be splet or merged, but I would leave things as they are now, since someone might add a lot of information concerning only one of them. Mariano(t/c) 07:49, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

I also disagree with the merge proposal. They are not the same thing; one is a subset of the other. Warofdreams talk 21:21, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Disgree per above arguments KimvdLinde 21:28, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

First voyage of the Beagle

"Four native Fuegians, ... were brought from Tierra del Fuego by Robert Fitzroy on the first voyage of the Beagle in 1830" is not correct. It was Fitzroys first voyage with the Beagle, but not the first voyage of the Beagle. I changed it. 62.235.147.18 12:56, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Land of Fire

Tierra Del Fuego is also known to be called "Land of Fire" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.144.168.52 (talk) 20:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC).

fire land fire earth || land fire earth fire

" Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire"),.......... " "...or the more literal, yet less accurate: 'Earth of Fire' ".

Thank You,

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I do want that quote added.

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For inclusion, a reliable source should be cited saying that's the literal, or a more literal, translation, if that's what is to be added. A google search for "earth of fire" and "tierra del fuego" shows 47 matches (16 distinct), while a search for "land of fire" and "tierra del fuego" results in 42,500 matches. Some of those are links to this wiki article and derivatives of it, so that's self-referential justification, but "earth of fire," while poetic, may not be appropriate here. Note that both "earth" and "land" have several meanings in English. -Agyle 18:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Merger with Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego

I suggest a merge because the article about, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, has a good userbox, but no information, and the articles are intended to do the same job. Comments? Sseballos 01:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Note that a proposed merge was rejected in 2006 above in #Merge. PrimeHunter 02:24, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

IP's votes are probably invalid, but I'd oppose. They are, as also mentioned when a comparable proposal was made the last time, two separate things. Otherwise, you could prsent the same argument for merging Tierra del Fuego Province, Chile into it, too. 212.10.89.177 (talk) 14:07, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina

I've filed a requested move of the article Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Islands Province and thought people here might be interested in taking part. Thanks. Pfainuk talk 10:37, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Distance

"an archipelago 73,753 km2 (28,476 sq mi) off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland ..." The distance between the South American mainland and Tierra del Fuego is 2-dimensional? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.37.171.76 (talk) 16:55, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Removed the absurdity, thanks. Vsmith (talk) 18:08, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

Flora question

The text refers to fruits

collected respectively by Indians and countrymen[3]

What is another possible translation for "countrymen" here? This is not a word that would be used in English in this context. Ed8r (talk) 21:25, 23 February 2010 (UTC)

Naming?

Is it mentionable that English is the only major language where it is not common to translate TdF? Check out the links to the non-English wikis. Aside from English and Bahasa Indonesia, everyone says "Fjoerlân", "Feuerland", "Terre de Feu", "Terra Ignium", "Tűzföld"... samwaltz (talk) 11:08, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

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