Ramírez Island
| Ramírez Island | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Archipelago | Bugge Islands | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 9 ′ S , 68 ° 27 ′ W | |
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Ramírez Island ( Spanish Isla Eleuterio Ramírez ) is the northernmost of the three islands of the Bugge Islands (formerly) off the front of the Wordie Ice Shelf on the Fallières coast in the west of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Second Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1947–1948) named them after Eleuterio Ramírez Molina (1837–1879), a protagonist of the Chilean-Bolivian-Peruvian saltpeter war .
Web links
- Ramírez Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ramírez Island on geographic.org (English)