- Néstor Kirchner
"', full name Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić"', is the President of Argentina, sworn in on May 25, 2003. A Justicialist with leftist leanings, Kirchner was previously governor of the province of Santa Cruz. A governor of a Patagonian province, Kirchner was little-known internationally and even domestically before his election, which he won by default with only 22 percent of the vote in the first round when former President Carlos Menem withdrew from the race. - Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Charles Chatwin (13 May 1940 - 18 January 1989) was a British novelist and travel writer. - Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabeth Fernández is a politician from La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a former Senator for Buenos Aires Province, former First Lady and current Argentine president. She is Argentina's first elected woman president but not the first to run the country. - Ceferino Namuncurá
Ceferino "Morales" Namuncurá (the Venerable Namuncurá) was a religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic "cultus" and veneration in northern Patagonia. He was born in Chimpay, in Valle Medio, Río Negro Province, Argentina, the sixth child of Rosario Burgos and a Mapuche "cacique", Manuel Namuncurá. He was baptized by a missionary priest, Domingo Milanesio, at the age of eight. Namuncurá's early years were spent by the Río Negro river, … - Lewis Jones
Lewis Jones (30 January 1836 - 24 November 1904) was one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. The city of Trelew was named after him. Jones was born in Caernarfon and worked as a printer in Holyhead, where he was co-editor of the Welsh periodical "Y Punch Cymraeg". Later he moved to Liverpool and married Ellen Griffith in 1859. He became one of the main leaders of the movement which was set up to establish a Welsh settlement in a suitable location, … - Kevin Thaw
Kevin Thaw British alpinist - rock climber - mountaineer. Titled in several publications as the UK’s best all round climber, member of The North Face climbing team. Thaw has climbed notable routes and added many first ascents since commencing in Britain’s Peak District then relocating to California and journeying extensively through: Yosemite, El Capitan, Argentine Patagonia, the Himalaya, Alaska, Canadian Rockies, … - Francisco Moreno
Francisco Pascacio Moreno was an Argentine explorer, born in Buenos Aires. He is usually referred to as "el Perito Moreno" ("perito" means "specialist, expert"). In 1872 Moreno began a series of exploring expeditions that made him well known. In January 1876, he explored Lake Nahuel-Huapi, in the southern Andes, and discovered, on February 14, 1877, Lake San Martin. - Gerry Lopez
Gerry Lopez, aka "Mr. Pipeline," (born November 7, 1948, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a world-renowned surfer and occasional film actor. He won the prestigious Pipe Masters competition in 1972 and 1973. In 1982 he co-starred in the film "Conan the Barbarian" with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Other film appearances include "Big Wednesday" (1978), "North Shore" (1987), and "Farewell to the King" (1989). He has also appeared in numerous surfing documentaries, … - Cesare Maestri
Cesare Maestri is an Italian mountaineer and writer. He was born in Trento in the Italian region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. He began climbing in the Dolomites, where he repeated many famous routes, often climbing them solo and free, and put up many new routes of the hardest difficulty, for which he was nicknamed the "Spider of the Dolomites". He became an Alpine Guide in 1952. His notable solos include the Solleder route on the Civetta, … - Eric Shipton
Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 - 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan mountaineering legend. Born in Ceylon and educated in England, Shipton began climbing in the Alps. In 1928 he went to Kenya as a coffee grower, and first climbed Nelion, a peak of Mount Kenya in 1929. It was also in Kenya's community of Europeans that he met his future climbing partners Bill Tilman and Percy Wyn-Harris. Together with Wyn-Harris he climbed the twin peaks of Mount Kenya. - Michael D. Jones
Michael Daniel Jones (1822 - December 2 1898) was a Welsh Congregationalist minister and principal of a theological college, but is best remembered as a founder of the Welsh Settlement in Patagonia and one of the fathers of modern Welsh nationalism. Jones was born in Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire. After training for the ministry in Carmarthen and London, he emigrated and was ordained at Cincinnati. - John Byron
Vice-Admiral The Honourable John Byron RN (November 8, 1723 - April 10, 1786) was a British vice-admiral. He was known as "Foul-weather Jack" because of his frequent bad luck with the weather. Byron was the second son of the 4th Baron Byron. He joined the navy at a young age, accompanying Baron Anson on his circumnavigation as a midshipman. Byron's ship, HMS "Wager", was shipwrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and the survivors decided to split in two teams, … - Walter Bonatti
Walter Bonatti (born June 22, 1930) is an Italian born climber who set new standards in post-war Alpine climbing. Bonatti was born in Bergamo, Lombardy. Famed for his climbing panache, he pioneered little known and technically difficult climbs in the Alps, Himalaya and Patagonia. Among his notable climbs include a solo climb of a new route on the south-west pillar of the Aiguille du Dru in August 1955. - Lionel Terray
Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including Makalu in the Himalaya (with Jean Couzy on 15 May 1955) and Cerro Fitzroy in the Patagonian Andes (with Guido Magnone in 1952). A climbing guide and ski instructor, Terray was active in mountain combat against Germany during World War II. After the war, he became well known as one of the best Chamonix climbers and guides, noted for his speedy ascents of some of the most notorious climbs in the French, … - Alejandro Bustillo
Alejandro Bustillo was an Argentine painter and architect who left his mark in various tourist destinations in Argentina, especially in the Andean region of the Patagonia. Born in Buenos Aires on 18 May 1889, son of María Luisa Madero and Dr. José María Bustillo, he completed his secondary school studies in Otto Krause Technical School. He later entered the School of Architecture in the University of Buenos Aires and graduated from there as an architect in 1914. - Kyffin Williams
Sir Kyffin Williams KBE RA (May 9 1918 – September 1 2006) was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey. He was born in Llangefni, Anglesey into an old landed Anglesey family, and was educated at Shrewsbury School before joining the 6th Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers as a lieutenant in 1937. After failing a British Army medical examination in 1941 (due to epilepsy), doctors advised him to become an artist, … - Conrad Martens
Conrad Martens (1801 - 21 August 1878) was an English born artist active in Australia from 1835. Conrad Martens' father was a merchant who came originally to London as Austrian Consul. Conrad decided he had no aptitude for a commercial career and, like his two brothers John William and Henry, studied landscape under the prominent watercolourist Copley Fielding. In 1832 he joined the ship Hyacinth as a topographic artist. - Simon Yates
Simon Yates (born 1963) is a British mountaineer made famous by the book "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson, about a successful but disastrous attempt by him and the author to climb the West Face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985. He was born in Leicestershire, England. Simon started to study biochemistry, however gave that up to become a full time climber and mountaineer. Although the events on Siula Grande were one of his most public, … - Ricardo Iorio
Ricardo Iorio is an Argentine heavy metal musician who participated in various of the most important metal bands in the country. He was one of the founders of V8 (1982-1986) and later founded the successful band Hermética (1986-1994). He's currently the singer and main composer of Almafuerte, a band that already has more than 11 years of existence. His songs are realistic urban stories dealing with the life of lower classes, as well as Argentine 'metalheads'. - Julius Popper
Julius Popper (December 15 1857 - June 5 1893) was an engineer, adventurer and explorer of Romanian Jewish origin. He is responsible for the modern outline of the city of Havana, Cuba. As a "conquistador" of Tierra del Fuego in southern South America he was a controversial but influential figure. Popper was born in Bucharest, son of proffesor Neftali Popper, a prosperous antiques mrchant. He studied in Paris before arriving to Argentina on 1885 hoping to find gold. - Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail is a French author, traveler and explorer. In 1950-52, he led the Tierra del Fuego-Alaska car trek and in 1954, the French research expedition to the land of the Incas. In 1981, his novel, "Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie" ("I, Antoine de Tounens, King of Patagonia"), won the "Grand Prix du Roman" (award for a novel) of the Académie française. - Ángel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera was a Spanish zoologist. Cabrera was born in Madrid and studied at the city's university. He worked the National Museum of Natural Sciences from 1902, going on several collecting expeditions to Morocco. In 1925 Cabrera went to Argentina and remained there for the rest of his life. He was head of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museo de la Plata, and made collecting trips to Patagonia and Catamarca. - Eluned Morgan
Eluned Morgan (1870-1938) was a Welsh language author from Patagonia. She was born aboard the ship Myfanwy "en route" to Patagonia, the daughter of Lewis Jones who gave his name to the city of Trelew. She was partly educated in Wales, between 1903 and 1909, and worked for a time in Cardiff Free Library until her return to Patagonia in 1918. - Vitor Negrete
Vitor Negrete was a prominent mountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak outside Asia and one of the Seven Summits, from its south face. Negrete was also a prominent Adventure racer since 2001. Among many other adventures, he had crossed the Amazon Rainforest and traveled from São Paulo state to the southern part of South America - Tierra del Fuego - Patagonia on a bicycle. - Alberto María de Agostini
Father Alberto María De Agostini born in Pollone, Piedmont was an Italian missionary of the Salesians of Don Bosco order as well as a passionate mountaineer, explorer and geographer. He visited Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia between Chile and Argentina, where he was the first person to climb several mountain peaks and discover others, some named after him. In addition he has left behind 22 books and written works in Italian, German and Spanish, … - Domingo French
Domingo French was an Argentine revolutionary who took part in the May Revolution and the Argentine War of Independence. During his childhood and adolescence French spent his time between study and commercial activities helping his father. From 1802 French became the first mailman of Buenos Aires. During the first English invasion French organized, alongside Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, the corps of Húsares. - John Stamstad
John Stamstad is a member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. He was famous for his domination of long distance mountain bike races. He entered his first long distance road bike race in 1985. The 547 mile (880 km) non-stop race was across Missouri from St. Louis to Kansas City and back. In 1991 he switched from road events to ultra-marathon mountain bike events when he entered the Montezuma’s Revenge, a 24 hour race in Colorado. - Alain Mesili
Born a Parisian in 1949, Alain Mesili was a political activist in France during the 1968 disturbances. Frustrated with the failings of the French Communist Party he left Europe in 1969 and went, together with a number of other leaders of the failed uprising, to Argentina. "We left to live other lives. At the time, when I started to discover Argentina and Patagonia, virtually no one went there." Mesili spent a year exploring Patagonia. - Sheridan Anderson
Sheridan Andreas Mulholland Anderson was an American outdoorsman, fly fisherman, author, and illustrator. Born near Los Angeles, Anderson moved with his parents and younger brother to Salt Lake City, where he attended the University of Utah and studied art. He dropped out and became involved in the rock climbing community, writing and drawing for various climbing publications and co-authoring books on the subject with Royal Robbins. - Víctor Domingo Silva
Víctor Domingo Silva was a Chilean poet, journalist, playwright and writer. Silva was born into an educated family who instilled in him a love of literature. In 1906 he was elected diputado (deputy) (a member of the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress) of the provinces of Copiapó, Freirina and Chañaral. During his tenure as Deputy, Silva began publishing poetry in El Mercurio, a well-known newspaper centered in the Valparaiso region. - Carl Skottsberg
Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg (1 December 1880 - 14 June 1963) was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica. Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn, began his academic studies at Uppsala University in 1898 and received his doctorate and a docentship there in 1907. He participated in the Swedish Antarctic expedition of 1901] to 1903, and was leader of the Swedish Magellanic expedition to Patagonia, 1907 to 1909. - Alan Rouse
Alan Paul Rouse (b.December 19, 1951 - d.August 10, 1986) was the first British climber to reach the summit of the second highest mountain in the world, K2, but died on the descent. He was born in Wallasey and began climbing at the age of sixteen, soon climbing many of the most difficult routes in North Wales. He attended Birkenhead School from 1963 to 1970 and Emmanuel College, Cambridge until 1973. - Thomas Doughty
Thomas Doughty (?-July 2 1578) was an English nobleman, soldier, scholar and personal secretary of Christopher Hatton. His association with Francis Drake, on a 1577 voyage to interfere with Spanish treasure fleets, ended in a shipboard trial for treason and witchcraft and Doughty's execution. Although scholars doubt the validity of the charges, and question Drake's authority to try and execute Doughty, … - Livio Dante Porta
Livio Dante Porta was an Argentine steam locomotive engineer. He is particularly remembered for his innovative modifications to existing locomotive systems in order to obtain higher performance, energy efficiency and reduced pollution. He developed the Kylpor, Lempor exhaust systems. The Lemprex was under development at the time of his death. Porta was born in Rosario, Santa Fé Province and studied civil engineering, concluding his studies in 1946, … - Erland Nordenskiöld
Baron Nils Erland Herbert Nordenskiöld was a Finnish-Swedish archeologist and anthropologist. He was born in Stockholm, the son of N. A. E. Nordenskiöld. Erland Nordenskiöld's research focused on the ethnography and prehistory of South America. He was educated at Upsala, was connected with the Museum of Natural History at Stockholm (1906-08), and became director of the ethnographic division of the Göteborg Museum (1913). - Väinö Auer
Väinö Auer, the son of senator Kyösti Auer, was a Finnish geologist and geographer, chiefly remembered as an explorer of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia. He is also noted for his pioneering studies on tephrochronology, desertification, and the development of bogs. Auer studied at the University of Helsinki, graduating BSc (1917), MSc (1918), and PhD (1923). His studies were interrupted by the Finnish Civil War, where he saw action in 1918. - Otto Nordenskiöld
Dr Nils Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld (also spelled Nordenskjöld was a Swedish geologist, geographer, and polar explorer. Nordenskiöld was born in Hesselby in Småland in eastern Sweden, in a Finland-Swedish family that included his uncle Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, a noted polar explorer. He studied at Uppsala University, obtaining a doctorate in geology in 1894, and later became a lecturer and then associate professor in the university's geology department. - Miguel Cabello de Balboa
Miguel Cabello de Balboa was a secular priest, born at Archidona in Spain, dates of birth and death unknown. In 1566 he emigrated to Peru in South America; from here he went to Quito, Ecuador, where he began to write the "Miscelánea Antárctica", finishing it at Lima in 1586. Nothing else is known of him except that, in the years 1602-1603, he wrote a letter giving valuable details concerning the regions of Pelechuco and Apolobamba in eastern Bolivia, … - Sebastian Snow
Sebastian Edward Farquharson Snow, (January 21 1929 - April 20 2001), born in Midhurst, Sussex, was an eccentric British adventurer who became the first person to travel the length of the Amazon River. Educated at Eton, Snow was exempted from the National Service on account of a sports injury and began his travels at age 22. This was in 1951, when Snow went on his first expedition to South America, … - Charles Clerke
Captain Charles Clerke RN (August 22, 1741 – August 1779) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration. Clerke started studying at the Royal Navy Academy in Portsmouth when he was 13. During the Seven Years' War he served aboard the HMS "Dorsetshire " and HMS "Bellona". In 1764 he joined Captain John Byron, aboard HMS "Dolphin", on Byron's expedition to explore the Pacific. The Dolphin returned in 1766.
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