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In late 19th and early 20th century sheep farming expanded across the Patagonian grasslands making the southern regions of Argentina and Chile one of the world's foremost sheep farming areas. The sheep farming boom attracted thousands of immigrants from Chiloé and Europe to southern Patagonia. Early sheep farming in Patagonia was oriented towards wool production but changed over time with the development of industrial refrigerators towards meat export. Besides altering the demographic and economic outlook of Southern Patagonia the sheep farming boom also changed the steppe ecosystem.〔 Sheep farming in Patagonia was carried out in a estancia system. Each of these estancias was administered from a ''casco central'' (a central complex of buildings) where administrators, foremen and workers lived.〔 Sociedad Explotadora de Magallanes possessed more than 200,000 sheep by 1901. ==Development== In 1843 Chile established a colony in Brunswick Peninsula to assert sovereignty over the strategic Strait of Magellan. Early sheep herding activity in the Chilean colony was very modest.〔 The first men to realize the potential for large-scale sheep herding in the lands around the Strait of Magellan were a group of British immigrants that settled in Punta Arenas in the 1870s. The first successful attempt at sheep farming in the Straits of Magellan is credited to the Englishman Henry Reynard ((スペイン語:Enrique Reynard)) who raised sheep in 1877 on Isabel Island. These sheep were brought to the Straits of Magelland by Chilean governor Diego Dublé Almeida who travelled specifically for that purpose to the Falkland Islands abroad ''Chacabuco'' in 1876.〔 In Port Stanley he bought 300 sheep and back in Chile he sold them to Henry Reynard.〔 This first sheep raising experiment was by 1878 considered a success and created a huge demand of land among individuals who attempted to establish their own sheep raising business.〔 All the best sheep herding areas along the Strait had been leased or reserved by 1884. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patagonian sheep farming boom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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