Playa Maderas
| Playa Maderas | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Hero Bay | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 46 ′ 42 ″ W | |
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The Playa Maderas (of Spanish madera , wood ' ) is a beach in the north of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the west side of Cape Shirreff on the northern foothills of the John Paul II Peninsula, it is located southeast of the Acantilado Lobos cliff .
Scientists of the 45th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1990–1991) named it after the wooden remains of shipwrecks they had found here.
Web links
- Maderas, Playa in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)