Argentina

The strait separating Tierra del Fuego from the islands of Navarino and Hoste to the south, named after HMS Beagle, the survey vessel that carried Darwin through the region on his second voyage.

Argentina's premier wine-producing region at the foot of the Andes, responsible for the global rise of Argentine Malbec, with a landscape of irrigated vineyards, mountain views and high-altitude boutique wineries.

A 67-metre-tall white granite obelisk at the intersection of Corrientes and 9 de Julio avenues, built in 1936 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Buenos Aires' founding and now the city's most recognisable symbol.

A vast Patagonian ice field in Santa Cruz Province that advances and calves into Lake Argentino with spectacular crashes of ice, one of the few glaciers in the world not in terminal retreat.

A dramatic mountain gorge in northwestern Argentina where the Andes decline into the Gran Chaco, noted for its near-perpetual aridity, multicoloured sedimentary formations, and living Indigenous and mestizo culture.

One of the world's great opera houses, renowned for its acoustics and Euro-Argentine architectural grandeur, occupying a full city block in central Buenos Aires since 1908.