Ortiz Island
| Ortiz Island | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Archipelago | Duroch Islands | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 19 ′ S , 57 ° 53 ′ W | |
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Ortiz Island is an island off the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of Duroch Islands , it is 315 m south of the eastern end of Largo Island .
The Canadian geologist Martin Halpern (* 1937) from the University of Wisconsin made the designation during the course of surveying the area around the island between 1961 and 1962. It is named after Marcos Ortiz Gutmann, captain of the Lientur on the 16th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1961–1962), with whose help the scientists from the University of Wisconsin received logistical support on site.
Web links
- Ortiz Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ortiz Island on geographic.org (English)