Acuña Island
| Acuña Island | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Archipelago | South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 46 ′ S , 44 ° 37 ′ W | |
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The Acuña Island (English: Acuña Island , Spanish: Isla Acuña ) is a small island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands , which is 300 m away from Point Rae off the south coast of Laurie Island .
It was mapped in 1903 by participants in the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) under the direction of polar explorer William Speirs Bruce . Bruce named it after the Argentine meteorologist Hugo Alberto Acuña (1885-1953), who was stationed in 1904 on the South Orkney Islands.
Web links
- Acuña Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Acuña Island on geographic.org (English)