Aldea Island
| Aldea Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bugge Islands | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 12 ′ S , 68 ° 30 ′ W | |
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Aldea Island ( Spanish Isla Aldea ) is the middle of the three islands of the Bugge Islands off the outer edge of the Wordie Ice Shelf on the Fallières coast in the west of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants of the Second Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947-1948) named them after Juan de Dios Aldea Fonseca (1853-1879), a key figure in the naval battles of Iquique and Punta Gruesa on May 21, 1879 in the Chilean-Bolivian-Peruvian saltpetre war .
Web links
- Aldea Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Aldea Island on geographic.org (English)