Isla Navarino – the Dientes Circuit
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007We caught a 20 seater plane (22 if you include the pilots) from Punta Arenas to Puerto Williams – the southernmost town (population 2,262 – it said so on a board in the town) in the world. Argentina has marketed Ushuaia as the most southerly place quite succesfully (claiming that Puerto Williams is only a “naval base”) but you can see it across the water to the North of you, so clearly not true!
We landed to blue skies and very little wind, which was great as we had a 4km walk into town from the airport. The airport is literally 250m away from town, but you have to cross an estuary and the road heads a long way inland before you get to a bridge (which was constructed from an old barge & lots of wood!)