Punta Aburto
| Punta Aburto | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 53 ′ S , 67 ° 35 ′ W | |
| location | Liard Island , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
Punta Aburto (in Argentina Punta Remedios ) is a headland in the southwest of the Liard Island in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It protrudes into the north-central part of the Hanusse Bay .
Chilean scientists named it after the Chilean biologist Luis Eduardo Aburto Contreras from the Universidad de Concepción , participant of the 25th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1970–1971).
Web links
- Aburto, Punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 4 (English).