Desolación Island
Desolación Island is an island at the western end of the Strait of Magellan in the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, Chile. Its northwestern point is called Cabo Pilar, and marks the entrance to the Strait of Magellan.
- Section of an island
- …lies at an elevation of around 200 metres (650 feet)
- Description: island in Chile
- Also known as“Desolacion del Sur”“Desolation”
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Latitude
-52.99717° or 52° 59′ 50″ south
Longitude
-74.29931° or 74° 17′ 58″ west
Open location code
37V72P32+47
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Desolación Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Isla Desolación”
- Chinese: “德索拉西翁岛”
- Chinese: “德索拉西翁島”
- Dutch: “Desolación Island”
- French: “Île Desolación”
- Galician: “Illa Desolación”
- German: “Isla Desolación”
- Indonesian: “Desolación”
- Indonesian: “Pulau Desolación”
- Italian: “Isola Desolación”
- Japanese: “Desolación島”
- Japanese: “デソラシオン島”
- Latvian: “Desolasjona”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Desolación-øya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Isla Desolación”
- Polish: “Desolación”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Desolação”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Desolación (otok)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Desolación”
- Spanish: “Isla Desolación”
- Swedish: “Isla Desolación”
- Turkish: “Desolación Adası”
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