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5. Development

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  • The wreck of the Monte Sarmiento, a steam clipper that hit rocks and foundered in the Beagel Channel on April 2, 1912, sits near the former Estancia Remolino in Argentine Tierra del Fuego. At rear the "Dog's Jaw" mountains rise on Chile's Navarino island.
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  • Street dogs greet in Ushuaia, Argentina, where a century of intermittent economic booms have drawn thousands of immigrants to rapidly developed neighborhoods. With them have come waste management problems, pollution, and thousands of damaging abandoned pets that often kill regional wildlife to survive.
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  • City crews in Ushuaia, Argentina, prepare to pave a dirt track in an fast-growing neighborhood. The peaks of the Sampaio range of Chile's nearby Hoste Island loom over the boom and bust development of Ushuaia, the growth of which was first fueled by an Argentine prison at the end of the 19th century, then by naval bases, free trade zones and now tourism.
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  • Fueguino boys run the streets of in Ushuaia. Many move to the region hoping for quick economic success before returning home to towns elsewhere in Argentina or Chile. Arriving with an attitude of impermanence, migrants hastily construct poor housing in unplanned neighborhoods.
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  • Children play in an Ushuaia yard, building dog houses with wind-blown cardboard and making guns from discarded plastic foam packing materials. Growing consumer culture is rapidly outpacing sanitation infrastructure projects in the towns of Tierra del Fuego. A sour national economy in Argentina means garbage disposal and littering laws are poorly enforced by a cash-starved regional government.
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  • A Fueguino boy runs through a vacant lot next to his family's simple home in Ushuaia. Many move to the region hoping for quick economic success before returning home to towns elsewhere in Argentina or Chile. Arriving with an attitude of impermanence, migrants hastily construct poor housing in unplanned neighborhoods.
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  • A reputation for remoteness is the draw for tens of thousands of tourists that arrive each summer season, often on cruise boats like this Northern European ship, with her 3,000 passengers. Normally at the city pier for a day or less, cruise ships spill passengers into the city for a precious few hours of souvenir hunting before continuing to or from Antarctica. Tourist dollars fuel the city's latest boom economy.
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  • European cruise boat travelers bid farewell to fellow passengers in Ushuaia as they disembark to continue their adventures in Patagonia. Though their numbers can inundate local infrastructure and fuel hurried development, tourists have also helped many Fueguians see the economic advantages of their glaciers, forests and mountains. Pro-development governments have been slowed by grassroots environmental movements hoping to preserve regional wilderness for its own sake as well as for its potential as a tourist draw.
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  • Piles of garbage sit in a suburban yard below Ushuaia's Mount Olivia. Provincial environmental laws passed as recently as 1992 attempt to control various aspects of local pollution. Local student researchers, however, acknowledge a "widely generalized and undesirable tendency in the population" to illegally dump garbage. "There exists a serious problem in this respect," they state, "above all in damage to tourism development."
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  • Caught by rocks after drifting from the industrial parks and trash piles of Ushuaia, broken pieces of plastic foam packing for television components and other trash can be found 20 miles away from the city on the remote Beagle Channel. The provincial government of Tierra del Fuego lacks sufficient money or political will to enforce new anti-pollution laws.
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  • A bicycle tourist fights his way down the dusty end of the Panamerican Highway between Ushuaia and Río Grande. Ushuaia, says local researcher Sergio Luppo, has ten times the amount of airborne dust and combustion pollution as Frieburg, Germany, a less-windy city with three times the population of Ushuaia. Plans proceed in Tierra del Fuego to pave the national highway and city streets, but thanks to budget restraints, the government is proceeding slowly.
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  • Dust trails follow a car speeding toward Ushuaia on Argentina's Ruta 3. Despite a sour national economy and the difficulty of balancing economic development with environmental concerns, local residents and officials are working to bring the First World to the "End of the World."
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