Dautert Island
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 16 ′ S , 37 ° 24 ′ W | |
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Dautert Island is a tussock- covered island in the archipelago of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located east of Cape Núñez .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2009. It was named after the German naturalist Erich Dautert (1901 - unknown) from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata , who collected biological samples during a visit to South Georgia in 1931.
Web links
- Dautert Island . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)