Playa Golondrina
| Playa Golondrina | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Barclay Bay | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 '17 " S , 60 ° 47' 48" W | |
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The Playa Golondrina (of Spanish golondrina de mar , Tern ' ) is a beach on the banks of Barclay Bay of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located north of Punta Las Torres on the west side of Cape Shirreff on the northern foothills of the John Paul II peninsula .
Scientists from the 45th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1990–1991) named it that because terns breed between the rocks on the beach.
Web links
- Golondrina, Playa in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)