Highest elevation 190 m (620 ft) | Area 0.93 km (0.36 sq mi) | |
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Isla Bartolomé is an uninhabited subantarctic island. Administratively it belongs to Chile.
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Map of Bartolom%C3%A9 Island, Ecuador
Geography and ecology
With an area of 93 ha and a maximum height of 190 m (623 ft) it is the largest of the Diego Ramírez Archipelago, being more than twice the size of the second largest - Isla Gonzalo, lying in the Drake Passage between the continents of South America and Antarctica. It is an important breeding site for black-browed (over 35,000 pairs) and grey-headed (over 9000 pairs) albatrosses, as well as for southern giant petrels.
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Isla Bartolomé Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA