Punta El Hallazgo
| Punta El Hallazgo | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 ′ S , 60 ° 48 ′ W | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Barclay Bay | |
Punta El Hallazgo (from Spanish hallazgo ' to find' ) is a headland in the north of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the west side of Cape Shirreff , the northern branch of the John Paul II peninsula , it is north of Playa Yamana .
Scientists of the 45th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1990–1991) named it after the discovery of a skull of a 21-year-old woman from the Yámana people in 1985, who suffered from malnutrition, anemia and otitis externa and was apparently for the passengers on the ship San Telmo , who had operated in the waters around Livingston Island in September 1819.
Web links
- El Hallazgo, Punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)