Agurto rock
| Agurto rock | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Duroch Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 18 ′ S , 57 ° 54 ′ W | |
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The Agurto Rock is a small rock island immediately northwest of the Silvia Rock in the middle of the Duroch Islands off the coast of the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants of the Second Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947-1948) named them Isla Elena Cerda de Bulnes after the Chilean politician Manuel Bulnes Sanfuentes (1911-1975). Later the name changed to Isla Agurto or Islote Agurto after the name of a boatman on the expedition. The current name goes back to a decision of the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964.
Web links
- Agurto Rock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Agurto Rock on geographic.org (English)