Ensenada Echeverry
| Ensenada Echeverry | ||
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| Waters | Neumayer Canal | |
| Land mass | Doumer Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Ensenada Echeverry (in Argentina Ensenada Sarandí ) is a bay in the central western section of the north coast of Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It opens to the Neumayer Canal .
Chilean scientists named it after the marine biologist Héctor Echeverry, a participant in the 5th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1950–1951). The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Echeverry, Ensenada in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)