Panecillo (Greenwich Island)
| Panecillo | ||
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| height | 30 m | |
| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 26 '55 " S , 59 ° 44' 15" W | |
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The Panecillo is a 30 m high and rocky hill on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It looms over Canto Point on the banks of Discovery Bay . At the foot of the hill is the Ecuadorian Pedro Vicente Maldonado station .
Ecuadorian scientists named it after the El Panecillo hill in Quito , the capital of Ecuador .
Web links
- Panecillo in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)