Talk:Ushuaia

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Ushuaia is not the Southernmost city in the world, that dubious honor belongs to Puerto Williams, which is southeast of Ushuaia across the Beagle Channel.

However, for tourism purposes, Ushuaia bills itself as the southermost city on Earth, and it is thus that many people actually believe it to be so.

The way I've heard it is that Ushuaia gets to be southernmost "city", while Puerto Williams, being smaller, is southernmost "town". But as we know from town and city, the dividing line is not precise, and would technically depend on Argentina's and Chile's official definitions of the terms - for instance, in some states of the US, even very small places can call themselves "cities" if they've been incorporated with the right paperwork. (This is worth a paragraph of explanation in the article, btw.) Stan 13:06, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Is there a Spanish word for town? SqueakBox 16:17, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Southernmost PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT: Puerto Toro, Chile, about 120 km south of Puerto Williams, Chile. That deserves the title. --NicAgent 02:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

You have permanent establishments in the Antarctica. Puerto Williams has less than 2,000 inhabitants, hardly a city. Anyhow, the article says sometimes considered, which is true. Mariano(t/c) 09:59, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Southernmost PERMANENT ESTABLISHMENT: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Can we get over the Guinness Book bragging rights now? Kthxbye. --76.209.58.121 16:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] the Lighthouse at the End of the World

From the article: "Some tours also visit the Lighthouse at the End of the World, made famous by Jules Verne in the novel of the same name." -- I've been to Ushuaia and I visited this lighthouse, I'm just wandering if this lighthouse really is the one Jules Verne was referring to. If it is so (if it is confirmed, with sources, the complete package), maybe a link to the Lighthouse at the End of the World should be provided in this paragraph, and at the novel's article a link pointing to this article as a reference to the lighthouse Jules Verne was writing about in the novel. Anyone knows if this is confirmed? --A/B 'Shipper 女 ^(talk) 13:33, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if this belongs in the article, but if we want to include references to culture, it's worth mentioning that the film Happy Together features the lighthouse at Ushuaia rather prominently.

[edit] Disambiguation page

Thanks to those who helped sort this one out, I have tried sorting the mess of the talk pages left behind, while the histories are a bit confused at least the talk pages are now coherent, SqueakBox 13:59, 10 October 2006 (UTC)