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Luis Pardo
Chilean naval officer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón (20 September 1882 – 21 February 1935) 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.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pardo and the second or maternal family name is Villalón.
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Birth name | Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón |
Born | (1882-09-20)20 September 1882 Santiago, Chile |
Died | 21 February 1935(1935-02-21) (aged 52) Santiago, Chile |
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Service years | 1900–1919 |
Rank | Senior lieutenant |
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