Fierro Point is a point projecting 400 m into the south part of

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from Parvomay Neck,

Greenwich Island Greenwich Island (variant historical names ''Sartorius Island'', ''Berezina Island'') is an island long and from (average ) wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island's surface ...

in the

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. The point forms the south side of the entrance to ''Basullo Cove'' () and the northwest side of the entrance to ''Ramos Cove'' (). The features were named by the 1947-48 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after crewmen of the expedition

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''Iquique'': Torpedoman Fierro, Mechanics NCO Abraham Basullo and Signalman Ramos.

Location

The point is located at which is 480 m south-southeast of Labbé Point and 700 m northwest of

Correa Point Correa Point is a point projecting 350 m into the south part of Discovery Bay from Parvomay Neck, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated ...

(Chilean mapping in 1951, British in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

* 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. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

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