Picton, Lennox and Nueva
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Native name: Islas Picton, Nueva y Lennox Nickname: PNL, PLN |
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Puerto Piedra in the Picton Island in 1915.
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 Picton, Lennox and Nueva Islands
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| Geography | |
| Coordinates | 55°02′S 66°57′W / 55.03°S 66.95°WCoordinates: 55°02′S 66°57′W / 55.03°S 66.95°W |
| Adjacent bodies of water | Atlantic ocean |
| Administration | |
| Region | Magallanes |
| Province | Antártica Chilena |
| Commune | Cabo de Hornos |
| Additional information | |
| NGA UFI=-896223 (Picton), -893896 (Nueva), -888860 (Lennox) | |
Picton, Lennox and Nueva (Spanish: Islas Picton, Nueva y Lennox) form a group of three islands (and their islets) on the extreme south of South America, in the Chilean commune of Cabo de Hornos in Antártica Chilena Province, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region. In the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, they lie east of Navarino Island and are separated from the Argentine part of Isla Grande in the north by the Beagle Channel. They have an area of 170.4 km2 (Lennox), 105.4 km2 (Picton), 120.0 km2 (Nueva).
Near to the islands are the islets Snipe, Augustus, Becasses, Luff, Jorge, Hermanos, Solitario, Gardiner, Terhalten, Sesambre and others.
Robert Fitzroy and Phillip Parker King called the island "Picton" in honour of Thomas Picton, first British governor of Trinidad in the West-Indies. Lennox was discovered 1624 by Dutch Admiral Schapenham and named Terhalten, after the officer who first sighted it. It was renamed later by Fitzroy and Parker King.
From the signing of the Boundary treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina to 1904, the islands were considered in Chile and Argentina as Chilean Territories.
At the end of the 19th century, the Chilean government gave the first concessions to Antonio Milicic in Nueva Island, Esteban Loncaric in Lennox Island and Thomas Bridges in Picton Island. In 1910/11 were inhabited: Caleta Las Casas in Nueva Island, Puerto Piedra in Picton Island, and Caleta Oro and Caleta Cúter in Lennox Island (Caleta is Spanish for a little Bay). These concessions were transferred in the course of time to other entrepreneurs, mostly to raise cattle or for mining.
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