Cerro Chonos
| Cerro Chonos | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 ′ 6 ″ S , 60 ° 47 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Chonos is a hill on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises at Cape Shirreff , the northern end of the John Paul II peninsula , northwest of the unofficially named Paso Largo strait and south of Cerro El Toqui .
Scientists of the 45th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1990–1991) named it after the Chono people on the island of Chiloé .
Web links
- Chonos, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 902-903 (English).