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The island became a penal colony in the early 19th century, starting in 1917, under president José Pardo's second administration. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] Initially a maximum security prison, the island eventually housed political prisoners, such as future president Fernando Belaúnde Terry , [ 1 ] who, his imprisonment, made an unsuccessful attempt to ...
Isla de los Estados is covered with dense low forests of Nothofagus southern beech. The animal life is composed mainly of penguins, orcas, seals, seagulls and cormorants, as well as the human-introduced deer and goats. The island is the location of one of the more southerly Atlantic breeding colonies of the Magellanic penguin. [18]
One main island, and several smaller islands (Isla de la Juventud, etc.) Continental shelf 109,884 42,426 11,346,346 103 270 Caribbean Sea, Greater Antilles: 1868 October 10 . 1902 May 20 Cyprus [n 3] CY CYP Part of a larger island, de jure sovereignty over entire island (Cyprus) Continental shelf 9,251 3,572 888,005 96 250 Mediterranean Sea
Isla Morro Blanco, south of the main island; Isla Noreste, northeast of the main island; Isla Rajado, east of the main island; The larger rock islets are: El Chivo; Peñón de Fuera; The population is about 200 inhabitants (according to 2001 census) mostly being fishing families. There is a small military base operated by the Venezuelan navy on ...
The island has only one municipality, also named Isla de la Juventud. The largest of the 350 islands in the Canarreos Archipelago (Archipiélago de los Canarreos), the island had an estimated population of 83,544 in 2019. [5] The capital and largest city is Nueva Gerona in the north, and the second largest and oldest city is Santa Fe in the ...
Sovereign states and a de facto state fully on islands: those with land borders shaded green, and those without shaded dark blue. Countries/territories not shown on the map: Antarctica (aq) (continental disputed territory), Australia (au) (continental country), the Cook Islands (ck) (free association with New Zealand), Greenland (gl) (constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark), Niue (nu ...
Isla de Pascua Province (Easter Island Province) is a Chilean province, an administrative division located within the Valparaíso Region. It has a 163.6 km² area and a population of 5761 inhabitants. The provincial capital is Hanga Roa.
Blanquilla is an island, one of the Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, [1] located in the south-eastern Caribbean Sea about 293 km (182 miles) north-east of Caracas. It is a popular location for divers, as well as famous for its white sand beaches, for which it is named.