Punta Albornoz
| Punta Albornoz | ||
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| Coordinates | 73 ° 17 ′ S , 60 ° 20 ′ W | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Lassiter coast | |
| Waters | Mossman Inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Weddell Sea | |
Punta Albornoz (in Chile Punta Leiva ) is a headland on the Lassiter coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . Not far from Cape Deacon, it forms the southwestern extension of the Kemp Peninsula .
Argentine scientists named it in 1975. It is named after the Argentine pilot Ángel C. Albornoz, who was killed in a plane crash on December 26, 1917. The namesake of the Chilean name is José Leiva Chacón, a crew member of the Yelcho in the 1916 rescue of the participants in the endurance expedition (1914–1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who were stranded on Elephant Island .
Web links
- Albornoz, punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)