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Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Wellington Furlong, noted explorer and author, will speak on Chile and exploring through Terra del Fuego at the Union on Tuesday, January...
Then he will take up the subject of his expedition to Terra del Fuego, the region of desolation, stormy channels, mountain barriers, great glaciers, verdant forests, Cape Horn, itself. The Colonel will describe his trip on an Argentine warship to Ushnaia, the lone Argentine Penal Colony, southernmost town in the world...
...writer, Mr. Furlong has contributed many articles on North African and South American topics to magazines. In 1907 he was sent by Harper's Magazine to South America in charge of an exploring expedition which was the first scientific party to penetrate the heart of Tierra-del-Fuego. Mr. Furlong's best-known book is "The Gateway to the Sahara," which was published...
...sacrifice of all personal comforts and considerations, he founded at Cordova a splendidly equipped observatory. He had also thrown a light upon the climatic conditions of South America, and established a net work of meteorological stations extending on one side from the tropics to Terra del Fuego, and on the other side from the Andes to the Atlantic...