The Wollaston Islands ( Spanish : Islas Wollaston ) are a group of islands in Chile south of Navarino Island and north of Cape Horn and east of the Hoste Island . The islands are Grevy , Bayly , Wollaston and Freycinet , as well as the islets Dédalo , Surgidero , Diana , Otarie , Middle and Adriana . The islands are part of Cabo de Hornos National Park .
6-747: The islands are located north of the Hermite Islands and separated from them by the Franklin Channel . The islets Terhalten , Sesambre , Evout and Barnevelt are located easterly and are not considered part of the Wollaston islands. North of the islands is Nassau Bay . The islands were named between 1829 and 1831 by the British naval officer Henry Foster , after the English scientist William Hyde Wollaston . The indigenous name in
12-677: Is Hornos Island , the location of Cape Horn . The islands are located south of the Wollaston Islands and separated from them by the Franklin Channel . The islets Terhalten , Sesambre , Evout and Barnevelt are located easterly and are not considered part of the Hermite islands. The southernmost islands of the American continent are the Diego Ramírez Islands , southwest of Cape Horn. South of all these islands
18-637: Is the Drake Passage . The southern tip of Deceit island extends southeastwards through a line of sharp-edged rocks known as Los dientes o garras de Deceit (the Teeth or Claws of Deceit) that end in a rough islet, Islote Deceit. The islands form part of the Cabo de Hornos National Park . They are named after the Dutch admiral Jacques l'Hermite (1582-1624). Hermite Islands were visited by Charles Darwin at
24-742: The Yahgan language was Yachkusin , "place of islands". The Yahgan lived throughout central Tierra del Fuego to Cape Horn. Numerous place names reflect British interests in the 19th century. In the later 19th century, Wollaston was the site of an English South American Mission Society to the Yahgan. (See Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum#Stirling Pavilion ). After Chile and Argentina achieved independence, they asserted their claims in this area. The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina ceded
30-474: The invasion of the islands south of the Beagle Channel. Hermite Islands The Hermite Islands ( Spanish : Islas Hermite ) are the islands Hermite , Herschel , Deceit and Hornos as well as the islets Maxwell , Jerdán , Arrecife , Chanticleer , Hall , Deceit (islet) , and Hasse at almost the southernmost end of South America . The smallest and southernmost of the major islands
36-652: The islands south of the Beagle Channel to Chile, but in 1904 Argentina claimed the islands. In 1978 Argentina started the Operation Soberanía to occupy the islands around Cape Horn and then, in a second phase, either to stop or continue hostilities according to the Chilean reaction. The invasion was halted after a few hours. In 1982, after the invasion of the Falklands, the Argentine government planned also
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