Hilary Burke
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/ 30 April 2007

City at world’s end bursts with tourists

Foreign tourists venture off luxury cruise ships to pick at the succulent flesh of king crabs. Nearby, rag-tag children watch from squatters’ camps. Drawn to the blue-ice glaciers and penguins of the Antarctic and a cheaper peso since Argentina devalued its currency in 2002, visitors come in droves to Ushuaia, billed as the world’s southern-most city.