James Island (Chile)
Coordinates: 44 ° 57 ′ S , 74 ° 7 ′ W
The James Island ( Isla James ) is a Chilean island in the Pacific . It belongs to the Chonos Archipelago just east of the South American mainland . The island has an area of 388 km² and is uninhabited. The entire island is part of the national reserve Reserva Nacional Las Guaitecas .
Surname
The island is named after Bartholomew James Sulivan (1810-1890), a British hydrographer and explorer, who visited the Chonos Archipelago in December 1834 with Charles Darwin on their famous world tour with the Beagle . The Picos Sulivan , which are the highest point on the island, are also named after Sulivan .
location
The Chilean island of James is 45 ° south and 74 ° west. The island is one of the largest islets in the Chonos Archipelago and is closely surrounded by other islands in the group. The Ninualac Canal runs south of the island, separating it from the very large southern neighboring island of Melchor and from the small Isla Kent in the southwest. The canal forms the widest west-east passage through the archipelago and leads from the Pacific into the Moraleda Canal, which separates the archipelago from the mainland. On the north coast of James Island runs the Goñi Channel, which separates the island from its northern neighbor islands, namely the smaller Williams Island in the northwest and the larger Isla Jorge in the north. The neighboring island to the east of Isla James is Isla Teresa , and the Ciriaco Canal runs between the two islands . All neighboring islands are also uninhabited. The short west coast of the island of James faces the open sea in the Adventure Bay of the Pacific Ocean. Administratively, the James Island belongs to the municipality of Cisnes in the Aysén region .
geography
The large island has an approximately triangular shape, reminiscent of a UFO or a wing cross-section, with the tapering end facing the sea. Like practically all islands in the archipelago, it is very mountainous, steep and impassable. In the west of the island are the Sulivan Mountains with peaks up to 1290 m high; they form the second highest elevation of the archipelago after the 1680 m high mountain Cerro Cuptana on the island of the same name northeast of Isla James . In the north of the island there is a 701 m high mountain. Most of the island is forested. On the south coast to the Ninualac Canal, about two thirds of the way from the Pacific coast to the mainland side of the island, a deep bay, called Concha , opens up and forms the mouth of the elongated fjord lake Estero Cisnes , which extends almost to the center of the island.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chile. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ^ Ernesto Greve: La nomenclatura geográfica y la terminología técnica (part 2). In: Revista Chilena de Historia y Geografía , Volume LXXXIII, No. 91 (July / December 1937), pp. 138-197 (here: 167).
- ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .