Desolación Island
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Desolación Island is an island at the westend of the Strait of Magellan in the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, Chile. It belongs to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Its area is 1352 km². Highest point is Monte Harte Dyke, 1097 m.
[edit] Desolación Island in fiction
The Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novel The Ice Limit details an expedition to "Isla Desolacion" near Cape Horn in Chile to recover a massive and ultimately dangerous interstellar meteorite.
Coordinates: 53°00′00″S 74°19′59″W / 53.000°S 74.333°W
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