Gordon Island (Spanish: Isla Gordon) is an island in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Politically, the island is located in the Commune of Cabo de Hornos, which belongs to the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region, Chile. It has an area of 591 km². The highest point of the island is at 1548 meters.
Famous quotes containing the words gordon and/or island:
“There is something Pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)