Ushuaia #3

Ushuaia started as a mission to convert the indigenous people.  A British missionary showed up and was going to bring the local population to the way of righteousness.  After all, this worked so well in other countries, why shouldn’t it work here?
 
The first thing you have to know about the indigenous people is that they lived naked.  Yup, no clothes, but they coated themselves in seal grease which provided a protective layer.  As soon as the missionaries insisted they wear clothes, though, they stopped with the seal grease.  Then they got opportunistic infections (which the missionaries also happened to bring along) like TB and measles.  The last full-blooded indigenous person died last year, and they are no more.
 
The second source of a starting population for the City was modeled after France and Australia.  Specifically, criminals were transported from other places, presumably to somewhere that they wouldn’t be as much trouble.  After all, if they are worried about clawing a place to live out of the wilderness, there’s not much time to set up Ponzi schemes or to be a pain to the government in Buenos Aires, right?
 
The old prison still stands and was first converted to a military outstation and is now a museum.