Caleta Villegas

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Caleta Villegas
Caleta Caceres
Waters Weddell Sea
Land mass Joinville Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica )
Geographical location 63 ° 12 ′ 6 ″  S , 55 ° 8 ′ 13 ″  W Coordinates: 63 ° 12 ′ 6 ″  S , 55 ° 8 ′ 13 ″  W
Caleta Villegas (Antarctic Peninsula)
Caleta Villegas

The Caleta Villegas ( Spanish ; in Argentina Caleta Caceres ) is a bay on the north coast of Joinville Island off the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately east of Fitzroy Point .

Chilean scientists named it after Aureliano Villegas, an officer on the Rancagua on the 2nd Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947-1948). Argentine scientists, on the other hand, named them after Lorenzo Cáceres, a sailor on the Uruguay in 1903.

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