Key facts
- Location
- Chilean Sea
- Archipelago
- Desventuradas
- Adjacent to
- Pacific Ocean
- Major islands
- San Ambrosio, San Félix, González and Roca Catedral
- Area
- 5.36 km (2.07 sq mi)(together)
- Highest elevation
- 479 m (1572 ft) max.
- Region
- Valparaíso
- Province
- Valparaíso Province
- Commune
- Valparaíso
- Time zone
- Chile Standard Time ( UTC-4 )
- Summer dst
- Chile Summer Time ( UTC-3 )
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Islas Desventuradas
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Juan Fernández
- Population
- 0
- Area
- 5.36
- Elevation
- 479
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Islas-desventuradas-Jose-del-Pozo.png
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- Commons category
- Islas Desventuradas
- topic's main category
- Category:Desventuradas Islands
- time of discovery or invention
- 1574-11-06
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Encyclopedic overview
The Desventuradas Islands (Spanish: Islas Desventuradas, IPA: [ˈislas ðesβentuˈɾaðas], "Unfortunate Islands" or Islas de los Desventurados, "Islands of the Unfortunate Ones") is a group of four small oceanic islands located 850 kilometres (530 mi) off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean. They are considered part of Insular Chile.
Due to their isolation and difficulty of access there are no civilian settlements on these islands, but a detachment of the Chilean Navy is stationed on Isla San Félix, which also hosts the 2,000-metre (6,600 ft) Isla San Felix Airport.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Desventuradas Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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