Caleta Aldea
| Caleta Aldea | ||
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| Waters | Mackellar Inlet ( Admiralty Bay ) | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Caleta Aldea ( Spanish ; in Argentina Caleta Tarragona ) is the northern of the two side bays of Mackellar Inlet in Admiralty Bay of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located northeast of the Caleta Aguilera .
Chilean scientists named it 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 saltpeter war . The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Aldea, Caleta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)