Cerro Gaviota
| Cerro Gaviota | ||
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| height | 25 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 ′ 1 ″ S , 60 ° 48 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Gaviota (Spanish for seagull hill ) is a 25 m high 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 110 m north of Punta El Hallazgo .
Scientists of the 45th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1990–1991) named it after the seagull colony located here.
Web links
- Gaviota, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)