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Acuña Island
Acuña
Island
, is a
small island
which
lies
south
of
Point Rae
, off
the south
coast of
Laurie Island
in the
South Orkney Islands
. Charted in
1903
by the
Scottish National Antarctic Expedition
under
William Speirs Bruce
, who named it after Hugo A. Acuña,
pioneer
Argentine
meteorologist
at
the South
Orkney station during 1904.