Cabo America
| Cabo America | ||
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 8 ′ S , 67 ° 9 ′ W | |
| location | Millerand Island | |
| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
The Cabo América (in Chile Cabo Gallegos ) is a cape on the northeast foothills of Millerand Island in Marguerite Bay before Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 6 km southeast of Calmette Bay . The cape is dominated by the Pico América .
Argentine scientists named it after a gunboat in the service of the first government of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1810. Chilean scientists, on the other hand, named it after Ladislao Gallegos Trujillo, a crew member of the Yelcho who carried out the rescue of the Endurance participants who were stranded on Elephant Island in 1916 -Expedition (1914–1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- América, cabo in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)