Cerro Pudu
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Pudú is a hill on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises east of the headland Punta Poblete on the west side of Cape Shirreff at the northern end of the John Paul II peninsula .
Scientists of the 39th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1984–1985) named it after the South Pudu ( Pudu puda ), the smallest species of deer in the world.
Web links
- Pudú, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)