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Desolación Island : ウィキペディア英語版
Desolación Island

Desolación Island ((スペイン語:Isla Desolación)) (Spanish for ''Desolation'') 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'' (Cape Pillar), and marks the entrance to the Strait of Magellan. Off Cape Pillar are three rocks in the sea, called ''Islotes Evangelistas'' (the Apostles).
==Desolación Island in fiction==
The Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child novel ''The Ice Limit'' described an expedition to Isla Desolacion near Cape Horn in Chile. The map in the (paperback) edition incorrectly identifies easterly Isla Wollastone as Isla Desolacion.
James Michener's novel ''Hawaii'' depicts an attempt by a sailing ship to pass the Straits of Magellan, describing the western exit past Desolation Island as the most difficult part of the passage.
In Herman Melville's novel ''Moby-Dick'', narrator Ishmael 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".
In Patrick O'Brian's novel ''Blue at the Mizzen'', a British man-of-war is sent on a peace time mission to Chile and the Straights of Magellan.

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