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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


Capitán Estivariz Refuge
Refuge
Capitán Estivariz Refuge
Location of Capitán Estivariz Refuge in Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates: 66°23′00″S 67°13′00″W
Country Argentina
Location in Antarctic PeninsulaBelding Island
Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica
Administered byArgentine Navy
Established1956 (1956)
TypeYear-round
StatusOperational

Capitán Estivariz Refuge (66°23′00″S 67°13′00″W) 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



References


  1. "Belding Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
  2. Refugio naval Capitán Estivariz, Retrieved September 20, 2018[circular reference]



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[de] Belding Island

Belding Island ist eine 5 km lange Insel vor der Westküste des westantarktischen Grahamlands auf der Antarktischen Halbinsel. Sie gehört zu den Biscoe-Inseln und liegt unmittelbar westlich des südlichen Endes von Watkins Island.
- [en] Belding Island



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