Bahamonde Beach
| Bahamonde Beach | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Hero Bay | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 27 '35 " S , 60 ° 47' 18" W | |
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The Playa Bahamonde ( Spanish ) is a beach in the north of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately north of Punta La Caverna on the east side of Cape Shirreff on the northern foothills of the John Paul II peninsula .
Chilean scientists named it after the Chilean zoologist Jorge Nibaldo Bahamonde Navarro (* 1924) from the Universidad de Chile , who was involved in the census of seal populations in this area during the 20th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1965–1966) .
Web links
- Bahamonde, Playa in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)