People from all over the world began to make pilgrimages to Monkey Mia and some 200,000 visitors arrived during the 1989 season.
One hundred thousand visitors arrived in 1865.
Only theCalypso's cutter was now secured there, so how had the visitors arrived?
Had a visitor arrived?
Prior to automobile travel, most visitors arrived by boat from Washington, D.C.
Around 4.6 million foreign visitors arrived in 2007, yielding a positive balance vis-à-vis the number of Argentines traveling abroad.
The zoo does a brisk business in tourist groups, school groups, and summer camps: over 120,000 visitors arrived in groups in 2009.
There limestone blocks remaining from the days when visitors arrived by carriage flank the end of the long walk to the front entrance.
Some 1,180 short- and long-term visitors arrived on the island in 2005.
Around 5.7 million foreign visitors arrived in 2012, reflecting a doubling in visitors since 2002 despite a relative appreciation of the peso.