Cerro El Jardín
| Cerro El Jardín | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 '3 " S , 60 ° 47' 48" W | |
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The Cerro El Jardín (Spanish for garden hill ) is a hill on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the west side of Cape Shirreff , the northern end of the John Paul II peninsula , it rises west of Cerro El Toqui on Playa Yamana .
Scientists of the 45th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1990–1991) named it after the numerous species of lichen that they found here like in a garden .
Web links
- El Jardín, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)