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__NOTOC__ The Diego Ramírez Islands ((スペイン語:Islas Diego Ramírez)) are a small group of islands located in the southernmost extreme of Chile about west-southwest of Cape Horn and south-southeast of Ildefonso Islands, stretching north-south. They are divided into a smaller northern group with six islets, and a larger southern group, separated by a passage wide. The two largest islands, Isla Bartolomé and Isla Gonzalo, both lie in the southern group. The islands contain the southernmost point of the South American continent. Águila Islet (''Islote Águila''), the southernmost land of the group, is at 56°32'9"S. They were first sighted on 12 February 1619 by the Spanish Garcia de Nodal expedition, and named after the cosmographer of the expedition, Diego Ramírez de Arellano.〔Dingwall, P.R., ed. (1995). ''Progress in Conservation of the Subantarctic Islands'', p. 107. The World Conservation Union. ISBN 2-8317-0257-7.〕 They were cited as the southernmost land mass plotted as of that time, and retained the distinction for 156 years, until the discovery of the South Sandwich Islands in 1775. In 1892 the Chilean government rented the islands to Pedro Pablo Benavides for fishing and on condition that a lighthouse, a port and a school were built.〔Octavio Errázuriz Guilisasti and Germán Carrasco Domínguez, (''Historia de las Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, Arbritaje británico de 1899-1903'' ), Editorial Andrés Bello, 1968, Santiago de Chile, page 93〕 Later the rent was transferred to Koenigswerther and Pasinowich. The Chilean Navy established a meteorological station above ''Caleta Condell'', a small cove on the northeast side of ''Isla Gonzalo'' (Gonzalo Island), in 1957, and resupply it several times each year.〔Dingwall (1995), p. 109.〕 This is the southernmost inhabited outpost of South America (including islands), even if the South Sandwich Islands are regarded as part of South America, since the Argentinian station on Thule Island was dismantled in June 1982 (in the aftermath of the Falklands War). The next southerly inhabited outpost of South America is the lighthouse of Cape Horn. Cruise ships occasionally pass by on their way to and from Antarctica. The islands are an important nesting site for a number of southern seabirds, including the black-browed albatross, shy albatross, grey-headed albatross, rockhopper penguin and southern giant-petrel. ==Climate== Image:Diego Ramirez Islands.jpg|Diego Ramirez Islands. Image:Diego Ramirez station.jpg|The Chilean station on Isla Gonzalo, with the beacon visible at highest point of the island. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Diego Ramírez Islands」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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