tierra del fuego

1. 1.

   an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina

   Broaderarchipelago

   Part ofChileArgentina

Questions about tierra del fuego

What does tierra del fuego mean?

tierra del fuego means "an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina".

Is tierra del fuego a common word?

tierra del fuego is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.