USHUAIA — Some call this prison the Alcatraz of Argentina. Its inmates helped build what’s now known as the city at the end of the world. Sent here in the early 1900s to populate the country ...

In Ushuaia itself, the former prison complex, Museo Marítimo y del Presidio de Ushuaia, now charts the intriguing timeline of the early penal colony (museomaritimo.com).

The narrow-gauge steam railway was built in the late 19th century to serve Ushuaia’s prison, where some of Argentina’s most hardened criminals were sent due to the city’s remote location.

The prison was open from 1902 to 1947. The Argentina Navy took over the prison complex and built a large naval base here. The cell blocks became a museum. Ushuaia became a port and a center for ...

Every day, the prisoners chugged 30km on a train pulled by oxen, over make-shift tracks to log timber to build a high security prison for themselves and the town of Ushuaia. The prison was closed ...

Ushuaia's frigid climate and remote location meant that if inmates managed to escape the prison grounds, they rarely got far. Nestled along the Beagle Channel with snow-capped mountains behind it ...