It didn't happen in Tierra del Fuego similar island, similar people.

Lecturer at the fifth National Congress on Judicial Training, organized by the Supreme Court of the province of Tierra del Fuego and the Federal Board of Supreme Courts and Courts of Justice of the Argentine Provinces, held at Ushuaia, province of Tierra del Fuego, Antarctica and the South Atlantic Islands, 29 November 1 December 2001.

The reason because Tierra del Fuego is separated from South America by a much narrower straight, and there was trading contact across that straight throughout 10,000 years.

The Argentine Government was well aware that Vernet was opening up previously unexploited trading areas and in 1829 in response to Vernet's request that it should establish a local authority in the islands to make it easier for islanders to obtain the papers needed to repulse territorial aspirations by third parties had made him Governor of the Malvinas Islands, Tierra del Fuego and the South Atlantic.