Landrum Island (Latorre)

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S-most of the three Bugge Islands (q.v.), Marguerite Bay, Fallières Coast, was called Isla Latorre by Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1947. (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947); later named Landrum Island after Betty J. Landrum, Director, Oceanographic Sorting Center, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, from 1963 (USGS sketch map Palmer Land (North Part), 1969; APC, 1980, p.4).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landrum_Island
Coordinates:   69°14'25"S   68°17'51"W
This article was last modified 8 years ago