Cerro Gajardo
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Gajardo is a hill on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises at Punta Boreal , the northern branch of Cape Shirreff at the northern end of the John Paul II peninsula .
Chilean scientists named him after the Chilean diplomat Enrique Gajardo Villarroel (1899-1994), representative of Chile in the preliminary negotiations for the Antarctic Treaty in 1958 and supporter of the Chilean survey of the mammal population in Antarctica .
Web links
- Gajardo, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)