Luis Pardo

Local nameLuis Pardo Villalon
LocationSouth Shetland Islands

Luis Antonio Pardo Villalón was a Chilean Navy officer who, in August 1916, commanded the steam tug Yelcho to rescue the 22 stranded crewmen of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, part of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The crewmen were stranded on Elephant Island, an ice-covered mountainous island off the coast of Antarctica in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands, in the Southern Ocean.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Pardo

Coordinates -61°5'53.899" N -54°51'38.923" E

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