A Look At The Southernmost City In The World
And the argument surrounding the lucrative tourist marketing distinction
Finding out which city is the southernmost town in the world should be an easy task. Simply pull up their coordinates and see which one is the closest to the South Pole. Done. However, despite the ease of completing this task in the 21st century, there is some argument and tugging over the distinction of being the southernmost city in the world.
There are forty-eight cities with a thousand or more permanent residents that lay below the 45th parallel south. It is an exclusive club that only has settlements at the very bottom of the planet. In addition to that, there are a couple of dozen more military outposts and research stations in and around Antarctica that only have a handful of people on site at any given time.
Out of all of these places, there are two cities that insist they are the southernmost city on Earth: Puerto Williams, Chile, and Ushuaia, Argentina.
Unfortunately for the Argentinians, there can only be one city to hold this title and it is Puerto Williams.
