Islands of Chile

Island territory

Geographic classification

• Sector 1: lies between 18° 15′S and 41° 45′S. It includes 134 islands and islets, totalling. The most known is Mocha Island.
• Sector 2: composed of islands far from the continent, only 16 islands and islets, totalling : San Félix y San Ambrosio, Salas y Gómez, Isla de Pascua, Juan Fernández Islands,.
• Sector 3: lies between 41° 45′S and 43° 45′S. It includes 169 islands and islets totalling, most of them near Chiloé Island.
• Sector 4: lies between 43° 44′S and 47°S, totalling and, mainly in the Chonos Archipelago.
• Sector 5: lies between 47°S and 56° 32′S, including 4,553 islands and islets, totalling : Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, Navarino, Guayaneco Archipelago and Diego Ramirez Islands.

  Ocean islands

River and lake islands

• Isla del Rey
• Isla Teja
• Malvinas

  Phantom islands

Literature islands

• The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron by John Byron
• The Survivors of the "Jonathan" by Jules Verne
• El último grumete de la Baquedano by Francisco Coloane
• The Golden Ocean by Patrick O'Brian
• The Unknown Shore by Patrick O'Brian
• Robinson Crusoe of Daniel Defoe
• Two Years' Vacation by Jules Verne
• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
• Benito Cereno by Herman Melville
• The Ice Limit by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, on Desolacion Island
• Hawaii by James Michener, on Desolacion Island
• The German poet Adelbert von Chamisso wrote a poem about Sala y Gomez Island based on his reflections upon visiting the island in 1816.
• Ishmael, in Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick, recalls a marble tablet at a whalemen's chapel in New Bedford which pays homage to a whaleman named John Talbot who lost his life whaling "near the Isle of Desolation, off Patagonia". This recollection occurs in Chapter 7, "The Chapel".