Cerro Jaña
| Cerro Jaña | ||
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| height | 73 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Jana is a 73 m high hill on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 180 m southwest of Cerro Puelche on the east side of Cape Shirreff at the northern end of the John Paul II peninsula .
Chilean scientists named it after Ricardo Jaña Obregónder from the Instituto Antártico Chileno , who carried out geodetic and cartographic work at Cape Shirreff in 1991.
Web links
- Jaña, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)