Playa Nibaldo
| Playa Nibaldo | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Playa Nibaldo ( Spanish ) is a beach in the north of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located between the headlands of Punta Fidelidad and Punta Oeste on the north side of Cape Shirreff on the northern foothills of the John Paul II peninsula .
Chilean scientists named it after the Chilean marine biologist Jorge Nibaldo Bahamonde Navarro (* 1924) from the Universidad de Chile , who was involved in the census of the seal populations in this area during the 20th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1965-1966) .
Web links
- Nibaldo, Playa in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)