I finished my journey on a small boat that sails every week from the Chilean port of Punta Arenas to the intimate island town of Puerto Williams, the most southerly community in the world.
The most southerly important landmark on the coast is Puerto San Julián.
Stronger-than-expected southerly winds hampered efforts on Friday, but the conditions eased and firefighters began back-burning behind homes in the area shortly after 11pm, the spokeswoman said.
Apart from its thin profitability and more southerly bias to its estate – fitting more naturally with Poundland - its 25% shareholder, Barclays Ventures, is currently in wind-down.
The cruise finishes, for those of us on the four-day trip, at the two most southerly towns in the world: docking at Ushuaia in Argentina, which noisily trumpets its status as the end of the earth, and before that Puerto Williams in Chile, which is actually further south.
WITH open minds as well as open arms, Kyushu the most southerly of Japan's four main islands—has always welcomed strangers with strange ideas.
If, as seems likely, the resolution of Kosovo's future is delayed again, the anger of ordinary Kosovars could be felt quite soon.On maps, Kosovo is Serbia's most southerly province.
Clever nets could help in southerly waters, where dozens of species swim together.
If a nuclear device was fitted into a subsequent southerly launched satellite, it would circumvent America's defences against long-range weapons because these are positioned to hit warheads flying from over the North Pole, not those coming from the south.
This described the seemingly unavailing efforts of the Marxist rulers in Tirana to forge an Albanian nationality out of highland Gegs and southerly Tosks.
In 2007 the summer weather was particularly inimical to the persistence of ice, with lots of warm southerly winds and clear skies that allowed the sunshine to do its worst.
