Caleta Acosta
| Caleta Acosta | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay ( Gerlache Street ) | |
| Land mass | Arctowski Peninsula , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 22 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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| width | 2.5 km | |
The Caleta Acosta (Spanish; in Chile Caleta Macera ) is a 1.5 km at its entrance and km at its top end 2.5 wide side bay of Wilhelmina Bay on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5 km south of Brooklyn Island in the northeast of the Arctowski Peninsula .
Argentine scientists named her in 1974 after Guillermo Acosta, a first-class sailor on the corvette Uruguay in the rescue of the shipwrecked participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld . In Chile, however, the bay is named after Emilio Enrique Macera Dellarossa, participant in the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946–1947) and responsible for the construction of the Arturo Prat station .
Web links
- Acosta, caleta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)