Punta Azcuénaga
| Punta Azcuénaga | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 39 ′ S , 62 ° 21 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Danco coast | |
| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
Punta Azcuénaga ( Spanish in Chile Punta Marín ) is a headland at the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the west bank of Wilhelmina Bay , it forms the northern branch of a small peninsula that extends from the Arctowski Peninsula in an easterly direction.
Argentine scientists named it after the Argentine independence fighter and politician Miguel de Azcuénaga (1754-1833). Chilean scientists, however, named them after Guillermo Marín Marín, boatswain on 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
- Azcuénaga, punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)