Santa Inés Island () is an island in southern Chile, part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago and of Punta Arenas municipality, lying south west of the

Brunswick Peninsula Brunswick Peninsula () is a large peninsula in Magallanes y la Antártica Region, Patagonia, Chile, at . Geography The Brunswick Peninsula is triangular in shape, joined to the mainland in the north by a wide isthmus. It widens to almost in t ...

, from which is separated by the

Strait of Magellan The Strait of Magellan (), also called the Straits of Magellan, is a navigable sea route in southern Chile separating mainland South America to the north and Tierra del Fuego to the south. The strait is considered the most important natural pass ...

and minor islands. It is the largest island of Punta Arenas municipality and the third largest of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, after

Isla Grande Isla Grande is a small island and Corregimientos of Panama, corregimiento in Portobelo District, Colón Province, Panama, off the Caribbean coast. It had a population of 1,037 . Its population as of 1990 was 626; its population as of 2000 was 1,05 ...

and Hoste Island. Its shoreline in this area is part of the

Francisco Coloane Coastal and Marine Protected Area Francisco Coloane Coastal and Marine Protected Area () is a national reserve of southern Chile's Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region The Magallanes Region (), officially the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region ( es, Región de Magall ...

. The rest of the island is a part of the Alacalufes National Reserve, equalling that Desolación Island and the ''Córdova Peninsula''. This latter is located in front of the island on the other side of the Strait of Magellan and is a peninsula of Riesco Island. The island belongs to the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The island hosts a small ice field named

Grandes Ventisqueros Grandes may refer to: *Agustín Muñoz Grandes, Spanish general and politician *Banksia ser. Grandes, a series of plant species native to Australia * Grandes y San Martín, a municipality located in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain ...

. It has a deeply indented coastline with several fjords, one of which hid the German light cruiser Dresden following the battle of the Falkland Islands in December 1914. First explorer of Santa Inés Island inland was the French writer and mountaineer

Marc Augier Marc Augier (19 March 190816 December 1990), better known by the pen name Saint-Loup, was a French anti-capitalist, later turned into Fascism, fascist, politician, writer and mountaineer. Early years Augier's earliest direct political involvemen ...

in 1951, as he related in his work ''Monts Pacifique''.

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