Diego RamÃrez Islands
The Diego Ramirez Islands ( Islas Diego Ramírez Spanish ) are a group of small islands which belong about 100 km south-west of Cape Horn and 93 km south-southwest of Ildefonso Islands lie and Chile.
First sighted they were named on 12 February 1619 by the Spaniards Bartolomé García de Nodal and after Diego Ramírez de Arellano. Diego Ramírez was the geographer of the expedition. They were up to the discovery of the South Sandwich Islands in 1775, the most southern known islands.
The Chilean Navy, built in 1951, a weather station above the Caleta Condell, a small bay on the northeast coast of the island Gonzalo. This station at about 56.5 ° south latitude is the southernmost manned outpost of South America, even if one still expects the South Sandwich Islands to South America, because the local Argentine station Corbeta Uruguay on the Morrell Island ( Thule) after the Falklands War in June 1982 by the British navy was destroyed. Several times a year is a supply ship. Cruise ships on their way to Antarctica occasionally there.
The islands are breeding ground for sea birds such as the Black- ( Thalassarche melanophris ).
Chilean Gonzalo weather station on the island, with beacon on the summit