Playa Larga
| Playa Larga | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Porlier Bay | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Playa Larga (Spanish for long beach ) is a sandy beach on the banks of Porlier Bay of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately south of Punta Del Medio and extends to Punta Yuseff on the east side of Cape Shirreff on the northern foothills of the John Paul II peninsula .
Chilean scientists of the 20th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1965–1966) named it descriptively.
Web links
- Larga, Playa in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)