Luis Pardo | |
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Birth name | Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón |
Born | Santiago, Chile | 20 September 1882
Died | 21 February 1935 Santiago, Chile | (aged 52)
Branch | Chilean Navy |
Service years | 1900–1919 |
Rank | Senior lieutenant |
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.