Martín García Island
Martín García Island is the southern half of an island in the Río de la Plata. Martín García is in Uruguayan waters and was disputed between Argentina and Uruguay, but in 1973 they reached an agreement establishing it as Argentine territory to be used solely as a nature reserve.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Argentine island enclaved within the Uruguayan waters of the Río de la Plata
- Also known as: “Isla M. García” and “Martin Garcia Island”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Aeropuerto de la Isla Martín García and Martín García Lighthouse.
Aeropuerto de la Isla Martín García
Aerodrome
Photo: Roberto Fiadone, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Martin Garcia Island Airport is the airport of Isla Martín García, a small Argentine island at the head of the Río de la Plata estuary, near the coast of Uruguay.
Martín García Island
- Categories: enclave, exclave, heritage, and landform
- Location: La Plata Partido, Buenos Aires, Pampas, Argentina, South America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Swedish—“Martín García Island” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Martín García”
- Armenian: “Մարտին-Գարսիա (կղզի)”
- Armenian: “Մարտին-Գարսիա”
- Azerbaijani: “Martin-Qarsiya adası”
- Catalan: “illa Martín García”
- Catalan: “Illa Martín García”
- Cebuano: “Isla Martín García (pulo sa Arhentina, Provincia de Buenos Aires)”
- Cebuano: “Isla Martín García”
- Chinese: “馬丁加西亞島”
- Chinese: “马丁加西亚岛”
- Czech: “Isla Martín García”
- Czech: “Martín García”
- Dutch: “Martin Garcia”
- Dutch: “Martín García”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارتين جارسيا ايسلاند @ڤالين_پيسينى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مارتين جارسيا”
- Esperanto: “Insulo Martín García”
- Finnish: “Martín García”
- French: “Île de Martin Garcia”
- French: “Île Martín García”
- French: “Martín García”
- German: “Isla Martín García”
- Greek: “Νήσος Μαρτίν Γκαρσία”
- Hebrew: “איסלה מרטין גרסיה”
- Ido: “Insulo Martín García”
- Italian: “Martin Garcia”
- Italian: “Martín García”
- Japanese: “マルティン・ガルシア島”
- Lithuanian: “Martín García”
- Lithuanian: “Martino Garsijos sala”
- Portuguese: “Ilha de Martín García”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Martín García”
- Russian: “Мартин-Гарсия”
- Spanish: “Isla de Martin Garcia”
- Spanish: “Isla de Martín García”
- Spanish: “Isla Martin Garcia”
- Spanish: “Isla Martín García”
- Spanish: “Martin Garcia”
- Spanish: “Martin García”
- Swedish: “Isla Martín García”
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