[kapteeni]

Wow! After adding woods this map looks breathtaking. An other masterpiece. You are Deutchmark of map making.

Thanks. But a funny thing is that it looks a bit odd to me now ... ha ha.

Ever since I can remember, I have this image of Tierra del Fuego as a bleak, wind-swept area of not much more than a heath-like landscape, with maybe low brushwood and grasses surmounted with high mountains in the background and icy waters all around.

I also remember reading about voyages made here (Charles Darwin on the Beagle of course) in which the inhabitants were described as living in wretched, cold and foul conditions in an extreme landscape ...

That (childhood) image must have stuck in my mind all this time ... I grew up long before there was anything called satellite imagery, and long long before such fantastic things were available for free on a publicly accessible computer network.

Now you can check up on almost anything. I still find that quite amazing, though I don't do it often enough ...

My thoughs too, but i just watched a documentary about evergreen forests @ that area.