1. I also enjoyed my stay in Patagonia.

2. Patagonia allows employees two months of paid and two months of unpaid leave and allows them to return gradually to work.

3. Patagonia does not offer a huge deal by way of urban amenities, and for many of us this is its beauty.

4. Pasttrips have included a honeymoon to far-flung Patagonia, Chile and Machu Picchu, and a luxury corporate retreat in the jungles of Cambodia.

5. Glaciers in the Southern Patagonia Ice Field, in the Chilean and Argentine Andes, are disappearing at much faster rates than scientists had anticipated, the Santiago Times reported.

6. Because of its remoteness and inaccessibility, Patagonia has always been, like Timbuktu or Shangri-la, a place of myths and legends.

7. A land of untouched beauty , South America's Patagonia stands to be dramatically altered by climate change.

8. In Patagonia, in Lake Gutierrez to be more precise, there is also a small heart-shaped island (picture at Google Maps).

9. Peninsula Valdes in Patagonia is a site of global significance for the conservation of marine mammals.

10. Maqui grown wild in the Patagonia region of South America and considered to have the highest Orac Value of all the Super-Fruits.

11. The place is apparently being slowly abraded by a fine, stinging dust blown across Patagonia by the unceasing gales.

12. Before Nau, Yolles worked in a succession of senior brand marketing roles at Nike, Patagonia and The Body Shop.

13. This huge mountain chain continues the great spine that runs from Patagonia to Alaska.

14. A crested caracara surveys a valley on Madre de Dios Island in Chilean Patagonia.

15. Most of the ice loss is coming from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Patagonia, the Himalayas, and the smaller ice masses surrounding the main Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

16. Ted Turner, the communications magnate, also has bought land in Argentine Patagonia an eye to conservation.

17. Todo Noticias and C5N Television reported that the propellor-driven Saab 345 iced up in the frigid air over Patagonia, but there was no official confirmation of this possible cause.

18. Photo Gallery: Plains A steam locomotive chugs across an expanse of South America's storied Patagonia region.

19. But in the south, the windswept uplands studded with tussock which ascend slowly into the foothills of the Andes, the endless plains of Patagonia, attracted more than their share of English.