Maipo Island

Maipo Island: Maipo Island (64°25′S 62°17′W / 64.417°S 62.283°W / -64.417; -62.283) is a low, snow-covered island lying at the entrance to Buls Bay, eastern Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. The island was first roughly charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897-99. The name appears on a 1947 Chilean government chart and commemorates the work of the Maipo, an oil tanker which participated in several Chilean Antarctic expeditions during the 1940s and 1950s.

See also

List of antarctic and sub-antarctic islands

This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Maipo Island" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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