A Jules Verne novel set at the southern tip of South America goes by the fabulous title,  The Light at the End of the World.   Richard Hudson passed through here recently and sent along the photos in today’s post.

It’s USS ATR-20, built in Camden Maine, launched in January 1943 and ending her days in Ushuaia, Argentina.  The shipyard is now Wayfarer Marine, which I should do a post about one of these days.  The sixth boro–as does The Graves of Arthur Kill– has its very own disintegrating ATR here.

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Fishing vessel Don Herman makes its way past the glacier in Seno, Chile.

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Here’s a smaller fishing boat near Isla Riesco. 

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End of the world aka Strait of Magellan, find tankers there?  Of course.  Here’s Sloman Herakles.

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Ditto ROROs like Fuegino.

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Canal Cockburn . . . they fish there too.

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Puerto Eden . . . some folks live their whole lives there and like it.

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Here are two more pics he sent a few months ago;  I’m impressed with this tender made of repurposed styrofoam.

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Note Issuma in the background to the right.   Here are more.

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Many thanks to Richard for this.  Follow his progress along the edge of the world here.