This is a list of islands of Chile, as listed by the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in support of national ...
Country Files (GNS)[The data was retrieved on 19 January 2013 and th]
were "ISL" and "ISLS" The country has 43,471 islands, according to the
Chilean Ministry of National Assets and the Chilean Military Geographical Institute, in the last update at 2019.
This list only includes Listnr.
full name, generic inverted The complete term used to identify a named feature is known as the full name. As stored in the database, the entire name is output as "Desertores, Islas" rather than reading "Islas Desertores."
The feature's latitude expressed in decimal degrees
Decimal degrees of the feature's longitude
A geonamed feature is uniquely identified by a Unique Feature Identifier (UFI), which is a number. A similar UFI denotes a similar feature.
Chilean claims in the Antarctic are not included on this list. see also the list of islands in the Antarctic and subantarctic.
The general terms "isla", "isla de/los/las", "islote", "islita", "isleta", "island," "islet," "islets," "rocks," "islas," "islotes," "islas de," "Archipiélago," and "Grupo" are used to name the items in NGA. Listed here
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Inconsistencies and phantom islands
The following Chilean islands are not listed by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency:
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Águila Islet (the really southernmost tip of American Chile)
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Calbuco Archipelago
Calbuco Archipelago is located in the Reloncaví Sound, Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, Chile.
The archipelago is composed of 14 islands.
List of islands
The islands are:
# Puluqui
# Caicué / Lagartija
# Queulín
# Chaullín / Helv ...
(but includes
Calbuco Island
Calbuco Island (also Caicaén Island) is an island in the commune of Calbuco, Llanquihue Province, Los Lagos Region, Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost ...
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Desventuradas Islands
The Desventuradas Islands ( es, Islas Desventuradas, , "Unfortunate Islands" or ''Islas de los Desventurados'', "Islands of the Unfortunate Ones") is a group of four small oceanic islands located off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in ...
(They are under the names "San Ambrosio" UFI -900077, "González" UFI -883263 and "San Félix" UFI -900282)
Of course
Elizabeth Island (Cape Horn)
Elizabeth Island is the name given to an island off the tip of South America
visited by Sir Francis Drake in September 1578, during his circumnavigation of the globe.
The island was not seen again and is regarded as a phantom. Various suggesti ...
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Podesta (island)
Podesta is a phantom island reported at by the Italian Captain Pinocchio of the vessel '' Barone Podestà'' (Hereward Carrington, ''Carrington Collection'', page 21) in 1879 claiming it to be just over a kilometre (1000 yards) in circumference l ...
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Pactolus Bank
Pactolus Bank (or Burnham Bank) is (or was) a seamount in the Southern Ocean, west of Cape Horn. It was discovered by Captain W.D. Burnham of the American ship ''Pactolus'' on November 6, 1885.
The bank has been proposed as a possible location fo ...
or other
phantom island
A phantom island is a purported island which was included on maps for a period of time, but was later found not to exist. They usually originate from the reports of early sailors exploring new regions, and are commonly the result of navigati ...
s are not listed.
Gable Island
Gable Island ( es, Isla Gable) is an Argentine island part of Tierra del Fuego Province. The island is located on the northern side of east–west Beagle Channel less than from Tierra del Fuego Island and about from Chilean Navarino Island. T ...
is listed by NGA as a Chilean Island, but it is Argentine.
List of islands
See also
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Islands of Chile
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Archipelagoes of Patagonia
The landmass known as Patagonia hosts a series of archipelagoes, all of them located on its western and southern coast. These archipelagoes, with the exception of Tierra del Fuego (which is shared with Argentina), lie in Chile and in the Pacific Oc ...
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Fjords and channels of Chile The southern coast of Chile presents a large number of fjords and fjord-like channels from the latitudes of Cape Horn (55° S) to Reloncaví Estuary (42° S). Some fjords and channels are important navigable channels providing access to ports like P ...
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List of fjords, channels, sounds and straits of Chile
The information regarding fjords, channels, sound and straits of Chile on this page is compiled from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyCountry Files (GNS)The NGA country data of Chile data was retrieved on 19 January ...
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List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
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List of lighthouses in Chile
In order to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, reefs, safe entries to harbors the Chilean authorities maintain 650 lighthouses from the boundary to Peru until the Atlantic Ocean. Information on these lighthouses is presented in the follo ...
References
External links
Islands of Chile @ United Nations Environment ProgrammeWorld island information @ WorldIslandInfo.comSouth America Island High Points above 1000 meters*
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Islands
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
Islands
An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...