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| Guide to Insular Chile ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. | | Guide to Insular Chile ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records. |
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| ==Insular Chile==
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| Insular Chile consists of the following islands, though only Easter Island and Robinson Crusoe are inhabited:
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| *The Juan Fernández Islands, composed of Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara islands, located 670 kilometres (420 miles) west of Valparaíso<br>
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| *The Desventuradas Islands, composed of San Ambrosio and San Félix Islands, located more than 800 kilometres (500 miles) west of continental Chile, opposite the Atacama Region<br>
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| *Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, 3,600 kilometres (2,200 miles) west of Caldera, with an area of 163.6 square kilometres (63.2 square miles) – the main island of the Sporadic Islands<br>
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| *Salas y Gómez Island, located 3,220 kilometres (2,000 miles) west of Chañaral and 415 kilometres (258 miles) northeast of Easter Island.
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