Manchón Austral
Coordinates: 60 ° 45 ′ S , 44 ° 44 ′ W
The Manchón Austral ( Spanish ) is a largely flat and wide isthmus of dark rubble off Laurie Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands . It separates the head ends of Uruguay Cove and Scotia Bay . The strip of land is the location of the Argentine Orcadas station .
Argentine scientists named it after the Austral , better known by its previous name Français as the ship of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot .
Web links
- Austral, manchón in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)