Ushuaia is located on Ushuaia Bay at 6 meters above sea level, surrounded to the west, north, and east by the Andes Fueguinos.  The Selk’nam people, also called the Ona, populated Tierra del Fuego about 10,000 years ago. Magellanic subpolar forests surround it. The Tierra del Fuego National Park and Lapataia Bay. The city has a museum of Yámana, English, and Argentine settlements, including its years as a prison colony. Wildlife attractions include local birds, penguins, seals and orcas, many of these species colonizing islands in the Beagle Channel. Ushuaia is the port of departure to the Antarctic Peninsula and cruise between Ushuaia and  Valparaíso, Punta Arenas and Buenos Aires. in 1896.