The Desventuradas Islands "Unfortunate Islands" or Islas de los Desventurados, "Islands of the Unfortunate Ones"[2]) is a group of four small islands located 850 kilometres (530 mi) off the coast of Chile, northwest of Santiago in the Pacific Ocean.[3] They are considered part of Insular Chile. Because of their isolation and difficulty of access, there are no human settlements on these islands, but a detachment of the Chilean Navy is stationed