Punta Cholchol
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,_Adelaide_Island,_Stonehouse_Bay.JPG) Punta Cholchol with Sighing Peak (front left) at the entrance to Stonehouse Bay |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 24 ′ S , 67 ° 58 ′ W | |
| location | Adelaide Island , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Waters | Cole Channel | |
| Waters 2 | Stonehouse Bay | |
Punta Cholchol ( Spanish , in Argentina Cabo Rosario ) is a headland on the east side of the Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies at the northeast end of the Wright Peninsula , is towered over by Sighing Peak and marks the southern limit of the entrance from the Cole Channel into Stonehouse Bay .
Scientists of the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946–1947) named it after the Chilean town of Cholchol in the Región de la Araucanía . The namesake of the Argentine naming made in 1978 has not been passed down. In the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , a cape is also recorded under these coordinates as Cabo Lauro . Its namesake is the oceanographer Lauro Miranda, a participant in the 25th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1970–1971).
Web links
- Cholchol, Punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lauro, Cabo in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish). Retrieved November 12, 2019.
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 909 (English).