Demény István: Dél-Amerika és az Antarktisz-félsziget (2008) / 1060-2008
Tierra del Fuego National Park was created in 1960 by Law N° 15,554. It is located in Southwest Tierra del Fuego province up against the border with neighbouring Chile. It protects 63,000 hectares of the southern north of Lake Kami (or Fagnano) in the Beauvoir orlnjoo Goiy.i^i range south to the coast of the Beagle Channel. The original inhabitants been disease. According to various chronicles they were also hunted down by explorers and poisoned by colonists and sealers in order to have easy access to sea-lion colonies. Population statistics are eloquent: of the 3000 Yamanas who were living at the time of arrival of the Europeans, there were but 1000 ten years later(1890) and by 1910 there were but 100. the main part of their diet and circular mounds of their shells can be found all along the shore. Their shelters were temporary domeshaped huts made of leafy branches and boughs. They dressed in short cloaks of sea-lion pelts. The extinction of these peoples is connected with the arrival of the first Europeans and "crioilos" explorers since 1890. The main cause of the disappearance of these cultures seems to have The main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago was first occupied by man some 10,000 years ago. The various tribal groups which occupied the area show that they integrated effectively with an environment which to modern eyes seems somewhat hostile. In what is now Tierra del Fuego National Park lived the Yamana. On the shores of the Beagle Channel and of Lake Roca there still exist many middens which demonstrate to us their long-time relationship with nature. Their camps were above the beaches whence they could harvest the resources of the sea. They moved around in canoes made from laths and sheets of bark of the Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio), hunting sea-lions and harvesting molluscs, mainly two species of mussel. These constituted t heir shelter
