page_title: Pedro Aguirre Cerda
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Pedro Aguirre Cerda / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Location of Danco Coast, Antarctica.
context_page_description: Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure. A member of the Radical Party, he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941. Pedro Aguirre Cerda was of Basque descent.
context_section_description: In the Chilean Antarctic Expedition in 1950–51, the explorers named the Aguirre Passage between Lemaire Island and Danco Coast  after Don Pedro Aguirre Cerda.
  Salvador Allende, who was one of Aguirre Cerda's close associates and served as Minister of Health in his government, would become president in the early 1970s.
caption: A map highlighting of the Danco Coast near the Aguirre Passage on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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