Punta Azcurra
| Punta Azcurra | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 24 ′ S , 61 ° 30 ′ W | |
| location | Murray Island , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Waters | Graham Passage | |
| Waters 2 | Ensenada Inés María | |
Punta Azcurra ( Spanish in Chile Cabo Léniz ) is a headland in the extreme southeast of Murray Island in the southwest of Hughes Bay before the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula .
Argentine scientists named them in 1978 after Timonel Azcurra, crew member on the Uruguay on the second supply trip to the Orcadas station between 1904 and 1905. Chilean scientists, on the other hand, named them after Clorindo Léniz Gallego, stoker on the Yelcho during the 1916 rescue of the stranded on Elephant Island Participant in the endurance expedition (1914–1917) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Azcurra, punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)