Desolación Island ( Spanish : Isla Desolación ) (Spanish for Desolation ) is an island at the western end of the Strait of Magellan in the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region , Chile .
6-638: Its northwestern point is called Cabo Pilar (Cape Pillar), and marks the entrance to the Strait of Magellan. Off Cape Pillar are four rocks in the sea, called Islotes Evangelistas (the islets of the Evangelists). The Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novel The Ice Limit described an expedition to Isla Desolación near Cape Horn in Chile. The map in the (paperback) edition incorrectly identifies easterly Isla Wollastone as Isla Desolación. The authors, in
12-735: A bronze plaque indicating the areas ownership by the King of Spain . The largest of the group is Evangelistas Grande which is about 400 metres (1,300 ft) long and wide, reaches a height of 60 metres (200 ft) and supports the lighthouse . The other, uninhabited, islets are Elcano 300 by 100 metres (980 ft × 330 ft), Lobos 400 by 150 metres (1,310 ft × 490 ft), and Pan de Azúcar 200 by 200 metres (660 ft × 660 ft). They are mainly bare rock with steep cliffs on their western sides and are exposed to strong winds and rough seas. Lobos and Elcano are home to breeding colonies of black-browed albatrosses with
18-790: A marble tablet at a whalemen's chapel in New Bedford which pays homage to a whaleman named John Talbot, who was lost overboard "near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia ". In Patrick O'Brian 's novel Blue at the Mizzen , a British man-of-war is sent on a peace time mission to Chile and the Straits of Magellan. In the Jackie Chan Adventures animated television series in Season 2 Episode 24 - Scouts Honor, Jackie Chan teleport
24-672: A note, say this is intentional. In James Michener 's novel Hawaii (and its 1966 film adaptation ) depicts an attempt by a sailing ship to pass the Straits of Magellan , which a skipper at the Falklands Islands (Captain Janders in the film version) describing the western exit past Desolation Island and the Evangels the most difficult part of the passage. In Herman Melville 's novel Moby-Dick , narrator Ishmael recalls
30-927: The Chilean continental shelf , some 30 km north-west of the western entrance to the Strait of Magellan , in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean , facing the full force of the " Furious Fifties ". They come under the jurisdiction of the Chilean Navy which operates the Chilean Maritime Signalling Service and has maintained a presence there since the establishment of the Evangelistas Lighthouse in 1896 by Scottish engineer George Henry Slight . On February 17, 1676 , sixteen men of Pascual de Iriate's expedition were lost at Evangelistas Islets while attempting to install
36-482: The episode's villain, Vanessa Barone , with the Eye of Aurora to Desolación Island, saying that it is a little island off the coast of Chile and is "one of the most remote spots on earth". 53°06′S 73°54′W / 53.10°S 73.90°W / -53.10; -73.90 Islotes Evangelistas The Evangelistas Islets (Spanish: Islotes Evangelistas ) are a group of four small, rocky islands lying on
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