Punta Mazzei
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 28 ′ S , 60 ° 48 ′ W | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Barclay Bay | |
Punta Mazzei 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 Golondrina and south of Playa Yamana .
Chilean scientists named them after Antonio Mazzei Fernández, meteorologist on the ship Piloto Pardo on the 20th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1965-1966), who was involved in the census of the mammal population in this area.
Web links
- Mazzei, Punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)