Caleta Corthorn
| Caleta Corthorn | ||
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| Waters | Peltier channel | |
| Land mass | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 52 '50 " S , 63 ° 31' 29" W | |
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| width | 530 m | |
The Caleta Corthorn ( Spanish , in Argentina Caleta French ) is a bay 530 m wide at its entrance in the southwest of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located around 3 km northeast of Cape Errera on the Peltier Canal .
Chilean scientists named it after Federico Corthorn, who worked as a helicopter pilot in the rescue of Argentine, Chilean and British scientists after the volcanic eruption on Deception Island in December 1967. The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Corthorn, Caleta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)