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A self-guided audio walk through Ushuaia, starting at the sign at the head of the pier where the cruise ships berth and running along the Beagle Channel waterfront, about two kilometres east to the old prison and two kilometres west to Casa Beban. On the way: the Museo del Fin del Mundo in the stone building of 1915 that was the town's bank for more than 60 years; the Museo Yámana, on the Indigenous people of the Beagle Channel; the National Prison, built by its own convicts from 1902 and closed in 1947, now the Maritime and Prison Museum; the sheet-metal Government House of 1890–1893; the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Merced; the Malvinas memorial with the names of the 649 Argentine dead of 1982; and Casa Beban, a house of Swedish panels, moved and rebuilt in 1994. The National Park and the End of the World train are outside the town and not part of this walk. The pier is never far: from any stop you can turn back.
8 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 53 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 2 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
The Ushuaia sign and the pier, Museo del Fin del Mundo, Museo Yámana.
Museo Marítimo y ex Presidio de Ushuaia, Antigua Casa de Gobierno.
Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Plaza Islas Malvinas, Casa Beban.
The waterfront sign of 1990 at the head of the deep-water pier, a gateway for Antarctic voyages.
The stone building of 1915 that was Ushuaia's bank until 1976, its vault still in place, with the figurehead of the Duchess of Albany in the first hall.
Scale models of the life of the Yámana and the Selk'nam, before and after European contact.
The radial stone prison its convicts built from 1902, closed in 1947, with one wing kept as it was and a replica of the Lighthouse at the End of the World.
The memorial to the 1982 war beside the Beagle Channel, with the eternal flame and a wall of 649 Argentine names.
A house ordered in panels from Sweden and put up in 1911–1913, dismantled and rebuilt on the waterfront in 1994.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 8 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 8 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Ushuaia — the Town at the End of the World, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
8 narration points, including Museo Yámana, Museo Marítimo y ex Presidio de Ushuaia, Plaza Islas Malvinas, Casa Beban and The Ushuaia sign and the pier. That is about 16 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 8 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.