Belding Island is an island long, lying west of the south end of

Watkins Island Watkins Island is a low lying, ice-covered island long, lying southwest of Lavoisier Island in the Biscoe Islands. The island was first mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05 and 1908–10, but remai ...

Biscoe Islands Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Lavoisier (named ''Serrano'' by Chile and ''Mitre'' by Argentina), Watkins, Krogh, Pickwick and Rabot, lying parallel to the west coast of Graham Land and extending ...

. It was mapped from air photos taken by the

Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...

(1956–57), and named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

for Harwood S. Belding, an American physiologist who was Director of the Quartermaster at the Climatic Research Laboratory, Department of the Army, Lawrence, Massachusetts, and initiated considerable research on cold climate clothing.

Capitán Estivariz Refuge

Capitán Estivariz Refuge () is an Argentine refuge in

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

located on a small island between the southwest coast of

and Belding Island, in the group of the

. The refuge opened on February 29, 1956, and it is administered by the Argentine Navy. His name pays tribute to

Lieutenant commander Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated Lt Cdr, LtCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander. The corresponding ran ...

Eduardo Anibal Estivariz who participated in the coup d'état carried out in September 1955 and died in a plane crash. The icebreaker ARA General San Martin participated in its construction during the Antarctic campaign of 1955–1956. After that, an aerial survey of the entire western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula south of 65º latitude was carried out. Refugio naval Capitán Estivariz, Retrieved September 20, 2018

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* Islands of the Biscoe Islands {{Biscoes-geo-stub

Capitán Estivariz Refuge

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