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El CalafatePerito Moreno

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Narrated by The Chronicler 74 km · about 71 min · 9 stories

Patagonia's road to the living glacier: the Aónikenk who walked this steppe first, Francisco Moreno's surveys, the sheep boom that fenced it, and the Southern Patagonian Ice Field — the third-largest on Earth, feeding a glacier that famously refuses to retreat.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    El Calafate, Santa Cruz

    The Glaciarium Ice Museum

  2. 2
    El Calafate, Santa Cruz

    The Aonikenk of Southern Patagonia

  3. 3
    El Calafate, Santa Cruz

    Francisco Moreno's Patagonian Surveys

  4. 4
    El Calafate, Santa Cruz

    The Rise of Sheep Farming

  5. 5
    Punta Bandera, Santa Cruz

    The Southern Patagonian Ice Field Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3

  6. 6
    Punta Bandera, Santa Cruz

    The Southern Patagonian Ice Field Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3

  7. 7
    Punta Bandera, Santa Cruz

    The Southern Patagonian Ice Field Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3

  8. 8
    Punta Bandera, Santa Cruz

    The Stokes Expedition

  9. 9
    Punta Bandera, Santa Cruz

    Perito Moreno Glacier Dynamics

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.