| 1. | There are very few surviving specimens of Fuegian dog.
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| 2. | The scientific name of the Fuegian snipe commemorates the systematist, Hugh Edwin Strickland.
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| 3. | Other bird species residing in the area include kelp goose and Fuegian steamer duck.
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| 4. | During the ice ages, a substantial ice cap covered the Patagonian and Fuegian Andes.
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| 5. | The Fuegian snipe forages by pushing its long bill deep into the mud seeking insects and worms.
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| 6. | The region was visited by Charles Darwin, who encountered its native Fuegian peoples in the Murray Channel.
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| 7. | The Fuegian Andes are covered by an ice sheet with outlet glaciers, although only on the Chilean side.
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| 8. | During the survey, some of his men were camping onshore when a group of Fuegian natives made off with their boat.
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| 9. | Along with other Fuegian languages, it was among the first South American languages to be recorded by European explorers and missionaries.
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| 10. | A significant obstacle preventing a consensus on any kind of direct relation aming the Fuegian languages is the lack of sufficient data.
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