Geology Picture of the Week, March 30-April 5, 2003: Tierra del Fuego

NASA Earth Observatory ^ | 04/01/2003

[cogitator]

Larger version (see first comment below)

[cogitator]

I'm posting the small image, but I HEARTILY recommend clicking the link underneath it and viewing the large image, which is about 2 MB and is amazing. (This isn't an April Fool's Joke, I promise.) Most of us won't ever get near here, so it's a view of an amazing and remote place on Earth.

[cogitator]

** PING **

[Bahbah]

Rats, it won't let me open the larger version.

[cogitator]

Try going to the page and see if it works:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3

The link to the larger version is under the image on the right.

[Bahbah]

That did it. Pretty incredible.

[bagman]

Samuel Eliot Morrison has a good description of Magellan's passage in his second volume of The European Discovery of America.

[Bahbah]

Thanks, bagman.

[Explorer89]

Most of us won't ever get near here, so it's a view of an amazing and remote place on Earth.

Except you, perhaps?

[oyez]

Tierra del Fuego = Land of smoke. Chiefly occupied by penguins. Other end of the world according to geography books.