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How to send mail, money, and visit Dawson Island
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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
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
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Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
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Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q429041)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Dawson Island. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/dawson-island
Chicago
"Dawson Island." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 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 = {2026-07-21}
}