Gándara Island

Gándara Island is an island immediately southwest of Kopaitic Island in the Duroch Islands of Antarctica. The name appears on a Chilean government chart of 1959. It was presumably named for Comodoro Jorge Gándara, the leader of the 1954–55 Chilean Antarctic Expedition.[1]

Gándara Island
Gándara Island
Location in Antarctica
Geography
LocationAntarctica
Coordinates63°19′S 57°56′W
Administration
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
PopulationUninhabited

See also
  • List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

References
  1. "Gándara Island". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-04-16.

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