Arcondo-Nunatak (Grahamland)
| Arcondo Nunatak | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Arcondo-Nunatak ( Spanish Nunatak Arcondo ) is a Nunatak at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It towers on the banks of Scar Inlet on the Jason Peninsula .
Argentine scientists named him. It is named after Pedro Pascual Arcondo, Major of the Armed Forces of Argentina , commanding officer at the Belgrano I station between 1959 and 1961 and the first Argentine parachutist in the Antarctic, who died on January 31, 1962 in an accident in the Antarctic.
Web links
- Arcondo, nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)