Saumarez Island

{{Short description|Chilean island}}

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| name = Saumarez Island

| native_name = Isla Saumarez

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| country = Chile

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| country_admin_divisions = Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena

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| country_admin_divisions_1 = Antártica Chilena

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| caption = Isla Saumarez in the centre of the map

}}Saumarez Island (Spanish: {{lang|es|Isla Saumarez}}) is an island within the Bernardo O'Higgins National Park in the Patagonian Archipelago of southern Chile.{{cite web |url=http://www.geonames.org/3871181/isla%20saumarez.html |title=Isla Saumarez, Chile |website=geonames.org}} The island was named after Admiral James Saumarez during the first voyage of HMS Beagle (1826–1830).{{cite book |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/published/1839_voyage_F10.1/1839_voyage_F10.1.html |title=Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, vol. 1 |date=1838}}

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 {{Interlanguage link|Paso del Indio|es}} (Indian Passage), then round Saumarez Island to Wide Channel.{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/southamericapil01offigoog/page/436/mode/2up?q=saumarez&view=theater |title=South America pilot. Volume II, Southern part |publisher=United States Hydrographic Office |date=1916 |pages=435–438}}