Patagonia
About Patagonia
Patagonia is a geographical region in southern South America that spans parts of Argentina and Chile. It includes the southern portion of the Andes mountain range, featuring lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers in the west, and deserts, tablelands, and steppes toward the east. The region is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and several waterways that connect them, including the Strait of Magellan, the Beagle Channel, and the Drake Passage to the south.
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It got to the point in 18th century London where they really believed there was a race of eight-foot giants that stalked the landscape in Patagonia, to the extent that the Secretary of the British Royal Society sent a letter to the French Academy of Sciences saying the existence of giants here is confirmed.
from 138: No Such Thing As Fluff Island, 2016-11-04 at 00:05:27 · read transcript
Other times Patagonia came up
Or Danby Wisk, which is the bit of kitchen equipment that you don't know what it's for, but it always means that you can't quite shut the drawer properly, and you have to sort of jam it in. That kind of stuff. That's great. Going to the Welsh thing, there are several thousand people in Patagonia in Argentina who descended from the Welsh and speak Welsh and Spanish as their two main languages. There are nearly as many Welsh speakers there as there are in Wales. That's bizarre.
9: No Such Thing As A Word For 'Silent Fart', 2014-05-02 · listen
Or Danby Whisk, which is the bit of kitchen equipment, that you don't know what it's for, but it always means that you can't quite shut the draw properly and you have to sort of jam it in. That kind of stuff. That's great. Going to the Welsh thing, there are several thousand people in Patagonia in Argentina who are descended from the Welsh and speak Welsh and Spanish as their two main languages. There are nearly as many Welsh speakers there as their own whales. That's bizarre.
No Such Thing As A Word For 'Silent Fart', 2014-05-02 · listen
She was an explorer, she was a raging 19th century feminist. She picked up the Jaguar in Patagonia when she was chased up a tree by a Jaguar mother, and she was in this tree and she had to shoot the Jaguar mother dead, and then she felt bad for the baby Jaguar, and so she brought it home. She recounted all this in a letter to Charles Darwin, in fact.
53: No Such Thing As A 3000km Tall Statue Of Liberty, 2015-03-20 · listen
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