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  • Alacalufe en isla Dawson- 1940.JPG

    Photo by En viaje / Empresa de los Ferrocarriles del Estado. Santiago via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Chile Dawson Island.png

    Photo by Chile.estrechodemagallanes.png: SciCorrector derivative work: SciCorrector (talk) via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Costa al sur del Puerto del Hambre.jpg

    Photo by Pato Novoa via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)

  • Dawson Island West.jpg

    Photo by Butterfly austral - Serge Ouachée via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Dawson Island.jpg

    Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Isla Dawson.jpg

    Photo by Nicanor Boloña, Luis Ossandón, Luis Risopatrón via Wikimedia Commons (CC0)

  • Terre de Feu-Patagonie-Rousson Henri.JPEG

    Photo by Henri Rousson via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

  • Vientos del Canal Gabriel-Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Volume I.png

    Photo by No especificado. Robert Fitz-Roy o alguno de los ilustradores (P.P. King y C. Martens) de los grabadores (S.Bull, T. Landseer y otros) del libro. via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Background

Dawson Island (Spanish: Isla Dawson) 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, and part of the Municipality of Punta Arenas. It is located southeast of Brunswick Peninsula. It is often lashed with harsh Antarctic weather. The settlements are Puerto Harris, Puerto San Antonio and Puerto Almeida.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

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Facility profile

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Death-row facility

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Conditions

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Visiting

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Mailing

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Practical info

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Known issues

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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Dawson Island. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dawson-island
Chicago
"Dawson Island." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dawson-island.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-dawson-island,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Dawson Island},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dawson-island},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}