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Isla Dawson
Isla Dawson (Dawson Island), Chilean island in the Strait of Magellan, Tierra del Fuego archipelago, 100 km south of Punta Arenas; site of a Salesian mission for deported Selk'nam (1889-1911) and a 1973-1974 political prisoner camp, now a naval base and national monument.
Isla de Aves
Isla de Aves (Aves Island) is Venezuela's northernmost point, a 375 m coral-sand cay in the Caribbean over 500 km from Margarita, confirmed Venezuelan by the 1865 Spanish arbitral award, and a major green sea turtle and seabird refuge.
Isla de los Estados
Isla de los Estados (Staten Island, Chuanisin) is a mountainous Argentine island east of Tierra del Fuego, discovered in 1616 by Schouten and Le Maire, a strict nature reserve holding 26% of the world's southern rockhopper penguins and the Lighthouse at the End of the World.
Isla del Sol
Isla del Sol, also called Isla Titicaca, is the largest island in Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, where Inca belief held the Sun was born and pilgrims gathered.
Isla Fernandina
Isla Fernandina (Narborough) is the westernmost, youngest, and third largest Galápagos island, an uninhabited shield volcano, La Cumbre (1,476 m), with frequent eruptions, pristine ecology, flightless cormorants, penguins, dense iguana colonies, and the rediscovered fantastic giant tortoise.
Isla Freire
Isla Freire is a small island in Chile's Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena, at 52°31′S 73°57′W, altitude 8 m, near Isla Raby and Cerros Altos; GeoNames ID 3889320.
Isla Gertie
Isla Gertie names two islands: one at 49°30'S 75°01'W in Chile's Magallanes fjords, in Laguna María Ester, named by the German cruiser Albatross; and a Kuna village island (Isla Ailidup) in Guna Yala, Panama, at 9.52°N 79.06°W.
Isla Gordon
Isla Gordon (Gordon Island) is an uninhabited Chilean island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago between Isla Grande and Hoste Island, dividing the Beagle Channel into northwest and southwest arms; area 616.73 km², maximum elevation 2,293 m, with uplifted Rocas Verdes ophiolitic rocks.
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, the largest island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and of South America, split between Chile (~29,000 km2) and Argentina (~18,000 km2), named for fires seen by Magellan in 1520.
Isla Herve Mangon
Isla Herve Mangon (Isla Hervé Mangón) is a 50 km² Chilean island off southern Isla Hoste, Magallanes region, between the Hahn and Carfort channels, named for French engineer and 1885 agriculture minister Hervé Mangon.
Isla Holbox
Isla Holbox is a 42-km car-free barrier island off northern Quintana Roo, Mexico, in the Yum Balam protected area, known for whale shark tours (May–September), flamingos, bioluminescence, lobster pizza, and fishing-to-tourism transition pressures.
Isla Jungfrauen
Isla Jungfrauen is an island in Tortel commune, Capitán Prat Province, Aysén Region, Chile, 9 km west of Archipielago Wellington; also recorded as Islas Jungfrauen or Grupo Jungfrauen, with a 180 m filter-feeder site and indigenous camp Isla Jungfrauen 3.
Isla Little Wellington
Isla Little Wellington, an island in Chile's Aysén Region at 48°30′S 74°45′W; largely within Katalalixar National Reserve, holding its highest summit at 995 m, separated from Isla Wellington by Canal Adalberto.
Isla Londonderry
Isla Londonderry, or Londonderry Island, is a Chilean island south of the Beagle Channel in southern Tierra del Fuego, named in homage to the ancestors of Captain Fitz Roy.
Isla Melchor
Isla Melchor is a Chilean island in the Archipiélago de los Chonos, Aysén Region, at about 45°S 73°40'W on Canal Moraleda, charted by the IGM at 1:50.000 with a 1,330 m elevation and hosting the CES Melchor 4 salmon farm.
Isla Merino Jarpa
Isla Merino Jarpa is a large Chilean island in Seno Baker, Golfo de Penas, Aysén Region, Capitán Prat province; about 560–623 km², named for Navy captain Vicente Merino Jarpa, mapped by the IGM in 1989.
Isla Moreina
Isla Moreina is a small island in Delta Amacuro state, Venezuela, in the Orinoco Delta region of Guayana, at 8.75352° N, 60.87989° W, altitude 17 m, near Jobure and Palmito; GeoNames ID 3763181.
Isla Mujeres
Isla Mujeres (Island of Women) is a Caribbean island in Quintana Roo, Mexico, 6 km northeast of Cancún, about 7 km long, a former Maya sanctuary of Ixchel, named for female statues found by Spanish conquistadors, and a Pueblo Mágico since 2015.
Isla Navarino
Isla Navarino (Navarino Island) is a Chilean island of about 2,473-2,514 km2 in the Beagle Channel, Region of Magallanes, south of Tierra del Fuego. Home of Yaghan culture, Puerto Williams, the Dientes de Navarino range, and the Cabo de Hornos Biosphere Reserve.
Isla Patricio Lynch
Isla Patricio Lynch (Patricio Lynch Island) is a 560.8 km² island in the Pacific off southern Chile, south of Golfo de Penas, part of Archipiélago Campana in Aysén Region's Capitán Prat province, named after Admiral Patricio Lynch and within Reserva Nacional Katalalixar.
Isla Prat
Isla Prat: uninhabited Chilean island in the Pacific, south of Golfo de Penas, Wellington archipelago, Aysén Region. 760.8 km², 18th largest Chilean island; part of Reserva Nacional Katalalixar.
Isla Puentes
Isla Puentes is a small islet in the Aysén Region of southern Chile, near Península Skyring in the South Pacific, covered in dense evergreen broadleaf forest.
Isla Puná
Isla Puná (Isla de la Puná), Ecuador's largest island outside the Galápagos, lies at the head of the Gulf of Guayaquil; about 920 km², 15,275 inhabitants, fishing and shrimp farming, reached only by sea.
Isla Renato
Isla Renato (Île Renato) is an island in Chile's Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena at 50°10′S 75°12′W, elevation 143 m; GeoNames ID 3873455, Wikidata Q22453661, near Isla Leandro and Punta Caracol.
Isla Rivero
Isla Rivero is an island in the Chonos Archipelago of Chile, in the Aysén Region of northern Patagonia between the canals Utarupa and Pulluche, named for Captain Galvarino Rivero.
Isla San Salvador
Isla San Salvador names Santiago Island (James Island) in the Galápagos and San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, the debated 1492 Columbus landfall; also a Peruvian river island and El Salvador's volcano.
Isla Tiburón
Isla Tiburón (Tahéjöc), largest island of Mexico and the Gulf of California (~1,200 km²), off Sonora; sacred communal property of the Comcáac (Seri), protected since 1963, separated by Canal del Infiernillo, with Tecomate archaeological site and introduced bighorn sheep.
Isla Visible
Isla Visible is a small island in the Region of Magallanes, Chile, at about 50.91° S, 74.65° W, elevation 87 m, near Hanover Island; GeoNames ID 3868063, Wikidata Q22455881.
Island country
An island country, also called an island nation, is a sovereign state made up entirely of islands with no mainland territory, such as the United Kingdom and Japan.
Islay
Islay, also called the Isle of Islay, is the southernmost of the Inner Hebrides off Scotland's west coast, known for its whisky distilleries and medieval Finlaggan.