Luis Risopatrón

Luis Risopatrón (1869-1930) was an engineer, explorer, geographer and cartographer from Chile.[1] His 958 page geographical dictionary of Chile was published in 1924.[2] The Risopatrón Base in the Antarctic is named for him. The American Geographical Society in New York awarded him the David Livingstone Centenary Gold Medal, its highest honor at the time, on September 14, 1926. As a child Patrón, was an admirer of Livingstone.[3]

Risopatrón's father, Francisco Risopatrón, was a hydraulic engineer and naturalist. His dictionary followed on Francisco Solano Astaburuaga's Geographical Dictionary of the Republic of Chile published in 1867. Luis Risopatrón was a founding member of the Chilean Society of History and Geography.[3]

He coined the terminology Antarctandes referring to the continuation of the Andes mountain beneath the Drake Passage and into Antarctica. [4]

Publishings

  • La antártida Americana (1908)[5]
  • Diccionario Jeografico de Chile (1924)

References

  1. ^ Parker, William Belmont (November 13, 1920). "Chileans of To-day". G. P. Putnam's sons – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Diccionario jeográfico de Chile por Luis Riso Patrón". BND: Mapoteca.
  3. ^ a b "Luis Risopatrón. Explorador y Editor de Obras Clásicas de Nuestra Geografía".
  4. ^ Klubock, Thomas Miller (April 16, 2014). La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile's Frontier Territory. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-7656-9 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ La antártida americana por Luis Riso Patron. Cervantes. 1908.
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