Saumarez Island
Saumarez Island is an island within the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in the Patagonian Archipelago of southern Chile. The island was named after Admiral James Saumarez during the first voyage of HMS Beagle.
Saumarez Island lies in a shipping channel between the archipelago and the mainland that avoids the open Pacific Ocean: shipping can pass southwards via the Messier Channel and the , then round Saumarez Island to Wide Channel.