Assertion: tierra del fuego | /r/HasProperty | land of fire
Facets:
value: literally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The name of "Tierra del Fuego" (land of fire) was based on the many fires seen by passing European explorers.
text: Why “Tierra del Fuego” (Fire Land)?
text: From soaring seabirds to waddling penguins, and from the ice walls of a glacier to the Tierra del Fuego, the Land of Fire.
text: The Islands that comprise Tierra del Fuego were discovered by Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer, who called it Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fires) because of his observation of bonfires on the shores of the island set by the Ona Indians.
text: He called the land Tierra del Humo (Land of Smoke); it was the king of Spain who thought Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) would be more poetic.
text: Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) is an archipelago located at the southernmost tip of the South American continent.
text: The archipelago was discovered by the navigator Ferdinand Magellan in 1520, when he sailed through the strait named after him and called the region Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire).
text: The name Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) was given by famous Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan, who explored the island in 1520 and noticed the small fires all along the shore.
text: The name Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire) was given to the region by the Portuguese sailor Hernando de Magallanes, who saw the indigenous group Ona making fires on the coast while he was sailing through the Magellan Strait in 1520.
text: Tierra del Fuego, Land of Fire, Southern Patagonia
text: Later, the King of Spain changed it to the more poetic name we call it now: Tierra del Fuego (Land of Fire).
text: Visitors to this city on the Tierra del Fuego (land of fire)
text: These reports are what led to the Tierra del Fuego, ‘Land of Fire’.
text: Tierra del Fuego—literally Fire Land, formerly Isla de Xativa and also known as Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego—is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan.
text: Tierra del Fuego – literally Fire Land and also known as Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego – is an island near the southern tip of South America from which it is separated by the Strait of Magellan.
text: For these fires, Magellan named Tierra del Fuego, the land of fire.