 Strait of Magellan with Dawson Island highlighted in red Dawson Island (Lat: 53.97º S Long: 70.58º W)[1] is an island in the Strait of Magellan that forms part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, 100 km south of the city of Punta Arenas in Chile. It is an approximately 1290 km² tract of land that is often lashed with harsh Antarctic weather. The Strait of Magellan is a navigable route immediately south of mainland Chile, South America. ...
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for Land of Fire) (English pronunciation ; Spanish ) is an archipelago, 28,476 sq mi (73,753 km²), separated from the southernmost tip of the South American mainland by the Strait of Magellan. ...
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City of Punta Arenas Punta Arenas in Tierra del Fuego Punta Arenas is the main city on the Strait of Magellan and the capital of the Región de Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena, Chile, and depending on the definition of city, makes a claim for the worlds...
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History
Dawson Island was used as a concentration camp for the Selknam and other native people in the late 1800s. In 1890, the Chilean government granted Salesian missionaries from Italy a 20-year concession to Dawson Island to educate, care for, and adapt indigenous people. Selknam Indians lived in the Tierra del Fuego islands, in southern Chile and Argentina. ...
The Salesians of Don Bosco (or the Salesian Society, originally known as the Society of St. ...
In more recent history, after the 1973 military coup, the island was used as a place to house political prisoners. According to an International Red Cross report in 1974, it was home to some 99 political detainees who were sentenced to forced labor and lived in squalor. The prison was shut down less than a year later and its prisoners transferred elsewhere. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...
The Red Cross and the Red Crescent emblems, the symbols from which the Movement derives its name The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is an international humanitarian movement whose stated mission is to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for the human being and all other...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
References - The Chile Information Project: Dawson Island
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