This Land of Fire forms a huge cluster of islands over thirty leagues long and eighty leagues wide, extending between latitude 53 degrees and 56 degrees south, and between longitude 67 degrees 50' and 77 degrees 15' west. Its coastline looked flat, but high mountains rose in the distance.
Het was het Vuurland, waaraan de eerste zeereizigers dien naam gaven, toen zij tallooze rookkolommen uit de hutten der inlanders zagen opstijgen.