Ventisquero Caupolicán
| Ventisquero Caupolicán | ||
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| location | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 48 ′ S , 63 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Puerto Angamos | |
The Ventisquero Caupolicán (of Spanish Ventisquero , snowdrift ' ) is a glacier on the Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located around 1.2 km north of Port Lockroy in the west of the island and flows into Puerto Angamos .
Scientists of the 1st Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1946–1947) named it in the course of surveying Puerto Angamos. It is named after Caupolicán († 1558), a Mapuche chief in the Arauco war against the Spanish conquistadors .
Web links
- Caupolicán, Ventisquero in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 296 (English).