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Geographical Magazine Editor Carolyn Fry and photographer Alex Benwell travelled to Argentina to visit a new museum that is telling the story of Patagonia's multicultural people. "A few treasured possessions were all they could take. One hundred and fifty three Welsh men, women and children packed up clothes, furniture, books and letters and boarded the tea clipper Mimosa in Liverpool docks. The families sought a new life in a place with enough land for everyone and where theirchildren could grow up learning Welsh culture and language, not English. Exactly two months later, after a gruelling Atlantic journey, they arrived on the eastern coast of Argentina. When they disembarked, in the harsh winter chill of 1865, one woman gave birth to a daughter on the beach. The land at which the settlers arrived was a wild, empty place, where rugged mountain ranges encircled wide, wind-swept plains. Today, the region is still sparsely populated; just under two million people live in 673,000 square kilometres, but there is a sense of order to the place. The solid-looking homesteads that dot the plains are bordered by neat rows of upright Lombardy poplar trees, planted to keep out the wind. Distances between settlements are long, but the major roads are well tarmacked. Although the first settlers faced hunger, hardship and loneliness, their legacy is a society that has learned to live comfortably with the harsh terrain."
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