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Hoste Island
Hoste Island
is one of the southernmost
islands
in
Chile
, lying south, across the
Beagle Channel
, from
Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego
and west of
Navarino Island
, from which it is separated by the
Murray Channel
. Hoste Island has the southernmost trees on earth,
Nothofagus antarctica
. In
Magellania
,
Jules Verne
described an imaginary
republic
on the island.
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