OBrien Island ({{Lang-es, Isla O'Brien) is located at the western end of the
Beagle Channel
Beagle Channel (; Yahgan: ''Onašaga'') is a strait in the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, on the extreme southern tip of South America between Chile and Argentina. The channel separates the larger main island of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego fr ...
.
East of the island is the ''Paso Darwin'', that is the beginning of the Beagle Channel. To the north is the
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (English: ''Big Island of the Land of Fire'') also formerly ''Isla de Xátiva''Pomar Channel Pomar may refer to:
People
* Arturo Pomar (1931–2016), Spanish chess Grandmaster
* Júlio Pomar (born 1926), Portuguese painter
* Juan Bautista Pomar Juan Bautista (de) Pomar (c. 1535 – after 1601) was a mestizo descendant of the rulers of ...
. To the South is the Guillermo Island and the
Londonderry Island
Londonderry Island () is an island (UFI -889706) in the Magallanes Region at the western end of the Beagle Channel and Darwin Sound. The island was named by the captain of HMS Beagle, Robert FitzRoy, whose maternal grandfather was The 1st Marq ...
separated by the O'Brien Channel.
External links
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United States Hydrographic Office
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The office was established by an act of 21 June 1866 as part of the Bureau of Navigation, Department of the Navy.
It was transf ...
South America Pilot (1916)*
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O'Brien Island
Islands of Magallanes Region