San Telmo Island

San Telmo Island

San Telmo Island (coord|62|28|S|60|49|W|) is an island forming the west side of Shirreff Cove on the north coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 after the Spanish vessel "San Telmo" commanded by Captain Rosendo Porlier, which was the flagship of a Spanish naval squadron bound for Callao (Peru) to reinforce colonial forces there fighting the independence movements in Spanish America. Very severe weather was encountered in Drake Passage in about 61S, 60W, but hawser after hawser parted and she was ultimately left to her fate in about 62S. Some of her spars and her anchor-stock were found by sealers on nearby Half Moon Beach in about 1821.

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* L.L. Ivanov et al, (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005


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