Caleta Valenzuela (Trinity Peninsula)
| Caleta Valenzuela Caleta Saborido |
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| Waters | Erebus and Terror Golf | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| depth | 2.6 km | |
The Caleta Valenzuela ( Spanish ; in Argentina Caleta Saborido ) is a bay on the south side of the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located at the southern end of the Tabarin Peninsula between Cape Burd and Cape Green .
Chilean scientists named it after the whaling ship Almirante Valenzuela with home port Punta Arenas , which operated in these waters in 1906. The namesake of the Argentine name is the Argentine naval lieutenant Lorenzo Saborido, captain of the Austral from 1905 to 1906, who had previously served as French to the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot on the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905).
Web links
- Valenzuela, Caleta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)