Ash Point is a rounded low ice-free point forming the southeast side of the entrance to

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in the northeast of

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in the

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with an adjacent ice-free area of .L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ''Letelier Bank'' () is lying off Ash Point, while ''Bascopé Point'' () is situated to the southwest, with the wide ''Rojas Cove'' () indenting for the coast between that point and Guesalaga Peninsula. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 ...

. Ash Point was charted and named descriptively by the

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in 1935. Bascopé Point and Rojas Cove were named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition respectively for First Lieutenant Juan Bascopé, meteorologist of the expedition, and for Captain Gabriel Rojas, Commander of the expedition transport ship ''Angamos'', and Letelier Bank was probably named after a member of the expedition.

Location

The point is located at which is northwest of Santa Cruz Point, southeast of Spark Point, southwest of Beron Point,

Robert Island Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island An island or isle is a piece of land, distinct from a continent, completely surrounded by water. There are continental islands, which were formed by being ...

and west of Edwards Point, Robert Island. British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Chilean in 1951, Argentine in 1953, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. Livingston-Island-Map-2010

Map

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

References

Ash Point.
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
Letelier Bank.
Gazetteer of the

British Antarctic Territory The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is a sector of Antarctica claimed by the United Kingdom as one of its 14 British Overseas Territories, of which it is by far the largest by area. It comprises the region south of 60°S latitude and betwee ...

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Bascopé Point.
Gazetteer of the

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Rojas Cove.
Gazetteer of the

External links

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Headlands of Greenwich Island {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Map

References

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