Belding Island
Belding Island is an island 6 kilometres (3 nmi) long, lying west of the south end of Watkins Island, Biscoe Islands. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956–57), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Harwood S. Belding, an American physiologist who was Director of the Quartermaster at the Climatic Research Laboratory, Department of the Army, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and initiated considerable research on cold climate clothing.[1]
Capitán Estivariz Refuge
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Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica
Capitán Estivariz Refuge (66°23′00″S 67°13′00″W / 66.383333°S 67.216667°W / -66.383333; -67.216667) is an Argentine refuge in Antarctica located on a small island between the southwest coast of Watkins Island and Belding Island, in the group of the Biscoe Islands. The refuge opened on February 29, 1956, and it is administered by the Argentine Navy. His name pays tribute to Lieutenant commander Eduardo Anibal Estivariz who participated in the coup d'état carried out in September 1955 and died in a plane crash.
The icebreaker ARA General San Martin participated in its construction during the Antarctic campaign of 1955–1956. After that, an aerial survey of the entire western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula south of 65º latitude was carried out.[2][circular reference]
See also
- List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands
- List of Antarctic field camps
References
- ^ "Belding Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
- ^ Refugio naval Capitán Estivariz, Retrieved September 20, 2018[circular reference]
This article incorporates public domain material from "Belding Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
66°24′S 67°13′W / 66.400°S 67.217°W / -66.400; -67.217
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