Isla Blass
| Isla Blass | ||
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| Waters | Grandidier Canal | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 65 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Isla Blass ( Spanish ; in Argentina Isla Vizcaína ) is an approximately 2.5 km long island off the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Grandidier Canal , it is about 600 m from the southwest end of Larrouy Island before the entrance to Barilari Bay .
Chilean scientists named it after the seismologist Bernardo Blass, participant in the 22nd Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1967–1968). The background of the Argentine naming is not deposited.
Web links
- Blass, Isla in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)