Águila Islet
Águila Islet (, "Eagle Islet") is the Extreme points of the Americas, southernmost point of the Americas. It is part of the larger southern group of the Diego Ramírez Islands, about southwest of Cape Horn in the Drake Passage. The distance to the closest Antarctic lands (Greenwich Island (South Shetland Islands), Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands) is about and to the mainland (Antarctic Peninsula) is about . See also * Extreme points of the Antarctic * List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands * List of extreme points of Chile References

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Diego Ramírez Islands
The Diego Ramírez Islands () are a small group of Chilean subantarctic islands located at the southernmost extreme of South America. History The islands were sighted on 12 February 1619 by the Spanish Garcia de Nodal expedition, and named after the cosmographer of the expedition, Diego Ramírez de Arellano. They were cited as the southernmost land mass plotted as of that time, and retained the distinction for 156 years, until the discovery of the South Sandwich Islands in 1775. In 1892, the Chilean government rented the islands to Pedro Pablo Benavides for fishing and on condition that a lighthouse, a port, and a school would be built. Later the rent was transferred to Koenigswerther and Pasinowich. The Chilean Navy established a meteorological station above Caleta Condell, a small cove on the northeastern side of Isla Gonzalo (Gonzalo Island), in 1957, and resupplies it several times each year. This is the southernmost inhabited outpost outside Antarctica. The next most ...
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