Dawson Island

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The Isla Dawson, Dawson and Dawson Island or Iceland, is a Chilean island one hundred kilometers south of Punta Arenas in the Strait of Magellan in Patagonia between Brunswick Peninsula and Tierra del Fuego. Administratively it belongs to the Región de Magallanes y Antártica Chilena de la ( Región XII).

Since the end of the 19th century, the Roaring Fifties exposed to 1290 km ² large island Dawson was used as a prison island, first for Selknam Indians under voluntary and involuntary Use as against resistance of Salesians.

After the overthrow of Salvador Allende by Augusto Pinochet coup in Chile in 1973, she was again used as a prison, this time for the opposition. One of the most prominent prisoners in the concentration camp was Pitroque 1973-1976 Luis Corvalán. Other in several torture sites were Julio Palestro Rojas, Tito Palestro Rojas, Clodomiro Almeyda, Arturo Jirón, Fernando Flores, José Tohá, Jaime Tohá, Osvaldo Puccio, Anselmo Sule, Sergio Bitar ( of his experiences as a prisoner in the book " Dawson. Isla 10 "processed, which was filmed by Miguel Littin 2009), Aristóteles España, Sergio Vuskovic or Allende's foreign minister Orlando Letelier. International pressure reached after the exchange Corvalan 1976 also the release and departure of the remaining political prisoners. The use of the stock appears to have been significantly restricted until after the end of the dictatorship in 1989. For 2002, gives the Chilean statistics agency of 301 inhabitants.