The historic house
On the Beagle Channel.
Liam Quinn from Canada — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Liam Quinn from Canada — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Claudio Elias — CC BY-SA 3.0
Estancia Harberton is the oldest farm in Argentine Tierra del Fuego, founded in 1886 by the missionary Thomas Bridges after he left the Anglican mission at Ushuaia, and named after Harberton, the Devon home of his wife Mary Ann Varder. Bridges compiled a dictionary of the Yaghan language, and his son Lucas wrote «The Uttermost Part of the Earth» about his childhood here. His descendants still run the farm today. Visits include a guided tour of the historic house, wooden outbuildings and gardens on the channel shore, and of the Acatushún museum of marine mammals and birds of southern South America, with its collection of whale and dolphin skeletons. From the farm's jetty, boats leave for Isla Martillo and its penguin colony. It opens in season only, mid-October to March, 12:00-19:00, closed on Tuesdays. The last part of the road is gravel, and the trip takes at least half a day from Ushuaia.
On the Beagle Channel.
Whale skeletons.
Penguins by boat.
On the Beagle Channel, about 85 km east of Ushuaia
In season only, mid-October to March, 12:00-19:00, closed on Tuesdays.