Riesco Island

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Riesco (Spanish Isla Riesco ) is a large island in the south of Chile. Administratively, the island belongs to the municipality of Rio Verde in the Región de Magallanes y Antártica Chilena de la. It is named after Chilean President Germán Riesco.

Geography

Riesco lies west of the Brunswick Peninsula, from which it is separated by Bay Seno Otway. In the northeast of only a few hundred meters wide Canal Fitz Roy separates the island from the Patagonian mainland, in the southwest of the 2 km wide Strait of Magellan forms the border to the islands of the Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, in particular to the island of Santa Inés. And in the north- west it is separated only by a very narrow strait of the Muñoz Gamero - Peninsula, with which it was until 1904 even still considered contiguous. Riesco is about 120 km long, up to 75 km wide and has an area of ​​5110 km ², making it the fourth largest island in Chile. Riesco is rugged zark by numerous bays and fjords and reached the Cerro Atalaya a height of 1830 meters above the sea.