Punta Amoroso
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| Coordinates | 70 ° 36 ′ S , 61 ° 22 ′ W | |
| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Black coast | |
| Waters | Larsen Ice Shelf , Weddell Sea | |
Punta Amoroso (in Chile Punta Aris ) is a headland on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the southeastern extension of the Eielson Peninsula and protrudes into the Larsen Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea .
Argentine scientists named it in 1975 after Adelmo Carmen Amoroso, who died on March 22, 1950 after completing an Antarctic flight when an Avro Lincoln crashed in the area of the Almirantazgo Fjord on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego together with ten other crew members. Chilean scientists, however, named them after Hipólito Aris, a crew member of the Yelcho in the rescue of the endurance expedition (1914-1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton who were stranded on Elephant Island in 1916 .
Web links
- Amoroso, punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)