Punta Melian
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 44 ′ S , 67 ° 26 ′ W | |
| location | Liard Island , Adelaide and Biscoe Islands | |
| Waters | Hanusse Bay | |
Punta Melian ( Spanish , in Argentina Punta Bajada ) is a headland in the extreme north of the Liard Island in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands off the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the entrance to the Hanusse Bay .
Chilean scientists named it after Andrés Melian Ulloa, a crew member of 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 . The background of the Argentine naming is not known.
Web links
- Melian, Punta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)