Qualla: Puerto Williams https://qualla.com/puerto-williams en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Puerto Williams https://qualla.com/puerto-williams Puerto Williams: Introduction https://qualla.com/puerto-williams/ There is a quarrel that has simmered for decades across the Beagle Channel, and it is about a single word: city. On the Argentine shore sits Ushuaia, larger, busier, long marketed as the southernmost city on Earth. Then, in 2019, Chile redrew its own definition - any provincial capital now qualifies - and the small naval town of Puerto Williams, sitting on the channel's southern bank at a higher latitude, claimed the crown. Both nations' governments, and a bilateral agreement between them, now recognize Puerto Williams as the world's southernmost city. It is home to fewer than three thousand people, a row of low timber houses strung along the water beneath the saw-toothed peaks of the Dientes de Navarino. This is the last urban dot before Cape Horn, before Antarctica, before the map runs out.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/q/p/z/puerto-williams-wp/4qpz-puerto-williams-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Puerto Williams: A Town the Navy Built https://qualla.com/puerto-williams/ Puerto Williams began as an act of sovereignty. The Chilean Navy founded it in 1953 - first as Puerto Luisa, then renamed for John Williams Wilson, a British-born officer who had planted Chile's flag in the Strait of Magellan a century earlier. For decades it was barely a town at...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/4/q/p/z/puerto-williams-wp/4qpz-puerto-williams-the-southernmost-trek-on-earth.mp3 0:06 4 full Puerto Williams: The Older Residents https://qualla.com/puerto-williams/ Long before any navy or census, these channels belonged to the Yaghan, who paddled bark canoes through the Beagle for thousands of years and kept fires burning even aboard their boats. Their presence endures at the town's eastern edge, where Villa Ukika gathers the homes and craf...

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