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| | Ushuaia, Argentina |
 | | Beneath the serrated spires of the Martial range, on the north shore of the Beagle Channel, the city of Ushuaia is both an endvirtually the terminus of the worlds most southerly highwayand a beginningthe gateway to Antarctica. |
 | | Ushuaia (population 45,205) is 240 kilometers southwest of Río Grande, the islands only other city, and 3,220 kilometers south of Buenos Aires. |
 | | Barely a decade later, in 1896, it established Ushuaias civilian Cárcel de Reincidentes for repeat offenders; after finally deciding, in 1902, that Isla de los Estados was a hardship post even for prisoners, the military moved their own facility to Ushuaia. |
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