Editing Southernmost settlements (section)

==Southernmost city==
''The southernmost city in the world'' is mainly a slogan used for tourism purposes to attract visitors to a city as well as the tourists headed for Antarctica. ''Ciudad'' (city) is not a legal designation in Chile and Argentina, except for the [[Autonomous City of Buenos Aires]]. Currently, three places use this slogan: [[Ushuaia]] in [[Argentina]] as well as [[Punta Arenas]] and [[Puerto Williams]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://edant.clarin.com/diario/1998/06/30/e-04801d.htm|title=Ushuaia ya no será la ciudad más austral del mundo|date=30 June 1998|publisher=|accessdate=1 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="turismopaliaike.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.turismopaliaike.com/williams.htm |title=Puerto Williams: ubicada entre Tierra del Fuego por el norte y el Cabo de Hornos por el sur , por lo tanto es la cuidad mas Austral del país y del mundo |access-date=2012-06-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304084244/http://www.turismopaliaike.com/williams.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="http://www.infinito-sur.com">[http://www.infinito-sur.com/spanish/chile/chile.html http://www.infinito-sur.com/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422042924/http://www.infinito-sur.com/spanish/chile/chile.html |date=2013-04-22 }}, retrieved 9 April 2012</ref><ref name="subpesca.cl">[http://www.subpesca.cl/controls/neochannels/neo_ch1089/appinstances/media1278/Tercera_edici%C3%B3n.pdf Puerto Williams espera una gran temporada de centolla]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, retrieved 9 April 2012</ref><ref name="Escritorio Estudiantes">[http://www.educarchile.cl/Portal.Base/Web/VerContenido.aspx?ID=194305 Escritorio Estudiantes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228063546/http://www.educarchile.cl/Portal.Base/Web/VerContenido.aspx?ID=194305 |date=2009-02-28 }}, retrieved 9 April 2012</ref><ref name="dibam">[http://www.dibam.cl/dinamicas/DocAdjunto_1242.pdf dibam], retrieved 9 April 2012</ref><ref name="Times Online">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110908210410/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/latin_america/article5370077.ece Times Online]</ref><ref name="thisischile.cl">Website thisischile.cl [http://www.thisischile.cl/1116/2/249/puerto-williams,-the-southernmost-town-in-the-world/Article.aspx Puerto Williams, the southernmost town in the world]</ref> in [[Chile]], with the last being the absolute southernmost town by latitude (see table below). There are several more settlements further south but none are considered to be large enough to be classified as a '[[city]]'. The three contending cities are from north to south:

*'''[[Punta Arenas]]''' ({{coord|53|10|S|70|56|W}}, population: 123,403), literally in Spanish: "Sandy Point", is the oldest and largest city in Southern [[Patagonia]], at the [[Strait of Magellan]] and the capital of the [[Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region]]. It is the largest of the three contenders with around 130,000 permanent residents<ref>[http://www.ine.cl/ine/canales/chile_estadistico/demografia_y_vitales/censo2002/mapa_interactivo/mapa_interactivo.htm Interactive map, INE Census 2002, Chile. (Click on XII Region and then on Punta Arenas)]</ref> and it is called the southernmost city by some media outlets. The basis of its claim to be the southernmost city rests on it being larger than [[Ushuaia]], [[Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego|Río Grande]], and [[Puerto Williams]], all of which are farther south.
*'''[[Ushuaia]]''' ({{coord|54|48|S|68|18|W}}, population: 82,615), the capital of the [[Tierra del Fuego Province (Argentina)|Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego]], is more commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world due to its sufficiently large population, its infrastructure, and its accepted classification as a city.<ref name="Boston Globe 2008">[http://www.boston.com/travel/specials/cruises/articles/2008/09/21/to_the_end_of_the_world_in_magellans_wake/?page=3 Boston Globe 2008]</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia
 |title        = Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
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 |url          = http://encarta.msn.com/media_461538660/Tierra_del_Fuego_Argentina.html
 |access-date   = 2008-09-11
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 |archive-url   = https://web.archive.org/web/20081206035648/http://encarta.msn.com/media_461538660/Tierra_del_Fuego_Argentina.html
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 }}</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia
  | title = Ushuaia
  | encyclopedia = Britannica
  | url = http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/620331/Ushuaia
  | accessdate = 2009-05-23 }}</ref> Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of the island of [[Tierra del Fuego]], on the northern shore of the Beagle Channel; hence, it is further north than Puerto Williams.

*'''[[Puerto Williams]]''' ({{coord|54|56|S|67|37|W}}, population: 1,868), located on [[Isla Navarino]],  is the southernmost town in the world on the southern shore of the [[Beagle Channel]]. It is the capital of the [[Antártica Chilena Province]], one of four provinces located in the [[Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region]].<ref name="ptowilliams.cl">{{cite web |author=WillySol |title=Puerto Williams - Chile |url=http://www.ptowilliams.cl/Puerto_Williams.html |accessdate=1 November 2014 |publisher=}}</ref> Puerto Williams is sometimes considered the southernmost city in the world by Chilean media and some large media international organisations,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/una-localidad-chilena-le-roba-ushuaia-etiqueta-nid2252719|title = Una localidad chilena le roba a Ushuaia la etiqueta de ciudad más austral del mundo|date = 29 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.clarin.com/viajes/ushuaia-perdio-titulo-ciudad-austral-mundo_0_aYQmqaR4Q.html |title = Por qué Ushuaia perdió el título de "la ciudad más austral del mundo"|date = 30 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/nacional/region-de-magallanes/2019/05/30/argentinos-admiten-derrota-reconocen-a-puerto-williams-como-la-ciudad-mas-austral-del-mundo.shtml|title=Argentinos admiten derrota: Reconocen a Puerto Williams como la ciudad más austral del mundo|date=30 May 2019}}</ref><ref name="turismopaliaike.com"/><ref name="http://www.infinito-sur.com"/><ref name="subpesca.cl"/><ref name="Escritorio Estudiantes"/><ref name="dibam"/><ref name="Times Online"/> although it promotes itself with the slogan ''Puerto Williams, the southernmost town in the world''<ref name="thisischile.cl"/> in its tourism campaigns. It has a [[Naval Hospital of Puerto Williams]], the [[Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum]], the [[Guardiamarina Zañartu Airport]] and a [[University of Magallanes|university campus]] and it is a naval base of the [[Chilean Navy]].

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File:Ushuaia 2009.jpg|[[Ushuaia]]
File:Punta_Arenas_city_view.jpg|[[Punta Arenas]] city view
File:Micalvi yacht club navarino chile.jpg|[[Puerto Williams]], Micalvi yacht club
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