Bahía Aramburu
| Bahía Aramburu | ||
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| Waters | Prince Gustav Canal | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 40 ′ 29 ″ S , 57 ° 59 ′ 29 ″ W | |
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The Bahía Aramburu is a small bay on the south coast of the West Antarctic Graham Land belonging Trinity Peninsula in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the north bank of the Prince Gustav Canal , it lies west of a headland towered over by Chapel Hill , which separates it to the east from Shelter Cove . The bay is often the opposite Brandy Bay of James Ross Island mistaken.
Argentine scientists named the bay after the Argentine general Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1903-1970), one of the leaders of the coup d'état against President Juan Perón in September 1955 and Argentine President from 1956 to 1958.
Web links
- Aramburu, bahía in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 69 (English).