San Telmo Island
| San Telmo Island | ||
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| Waters | Shirreff Cove , Drakestrasse | |
| Archipelago | San Telmo Islets ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 28 ′ S , 60 ° 50 ′ W | |
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San Telmo Island (sometimes just Telmo Island ) is a small island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Off the north coast of Livingston Island , it forms the western boundary of Shirreff Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1958 after the Spanish ship San Telmo from Cádiz , which, under Captain Joaquín de Toledo, was part of a four-ship formation in 1819 in Drake Street and was finally left to its fate. In 1821 seal hunters found remains of the ship on neighboring Half Moon Beach .
Web links
- San Telmo Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- San Telmo Island on geographic.org (English)