Piñero Island
| Piñero Island | |
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| Location: | 67°33’45"S, 67°49’1"W |
| Highest point: | Piñero Peak, 1,250 feet |
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Piñero Island is an island in the British Antarctic Territory, two nautical miles long by half a nautical mile wide, lying about four and a half nautical miles north-west of Pourquoi Pas Island, off the west coast of Graham Land, off the Loubet Coast. The highest point in the island is Piñero Peak at about 1,250 feet above the sea.
The island lies in the entrance of Laubeuf Fjord, west of Cape Sáenz on the mainland Arrowsmith Peninsula.
The island was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908-1910 under Jean-Baptiste Charco and named by him for Dr Antonio F Piñero, a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Republic, on whose motion the government voted unlimited credit to meet the needs of the expedition.
The island was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Stonington Island" in September 1948.
See also
- Quilp Rock an isolated rock three and a half nautical miles south-southeast of the south tip of Pinero Island.
References
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Piñero Island