Juan Fernández Islands

British  

/ ˈdʒuːən fəˈnændɛz, xwan fɛrˈnandɛθ /

plural noun

1. a group of three islands in the S Pacific Ocean, administered by Chile: volcanic and wooded. Area: about 180 sq km (70 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

It has also had medicinal plants, exotic plants from Europe and Asia, a large collection of species from the remote Juan Fernández Islands in the Pacific, and some of the world’s last known Sophora toromiro trees, which are native to Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, but are now extinct in the wild.

From New York Times

Alexander Selkirk’s four-and-a-half-year struggle as a castaway isolated on the Juan Fernández Islands off the coast of Chile served as the historical basis for Daniel Defoe’s novel, a story that made remote islands an ideal libertarian political ecology: an overdetermined geographic form upon which the drama of individualism, of man alone, could be staged.

From Slate

But the decision to allow a Dutch American textiles magnate to use heavy machinery to dig on Chile’s sparsely populated Juan Fernández Islands has sparked an outraged response from archaeologists and environmentalists.

From The Guardian

He buried it in the remote Juan Fernández Islands when his ship was intercepted by the British navy admiral Lord Anson in 1714.

From The Guardian

Another covers the island around the Juan Fernández Islands.

From BBC