Cerro Smellie
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 Map of the Byers Peninsula with Point Smellie, on which the Cerro Smellie rises (altitude "46"). |
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| height | 46 m | |
| location | Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 39 ′ 7 ″ S , 61 ° 9 ′ 4 ″ W | |
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The Cerro Smellie ( Spanish is) a 46 m high hill on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of South Shetland Islands . It towers over Point Smellie on the west side of the Byers Peninsula .
Spanish scientists named it after the name of the headland of the same name. It is named after John Laidlaw Smellie (* 1953), geologist for the British Antarctic Survey , who was involved in the exploration of the area around the headland between 1975 and 1976.
Web links
- Smellie, Cerro in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)