Correa Point
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Correa Point is a point projecting 350 m into the south part of
Discovery Bay Discovery Bay is a picturesque residential community located on Lantau Island. The 2021 census recorded a population of 19,336 residents in DB, with 55% of them being non-Chinese. DB is home to a significant community compared of expatriates ...
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
South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
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.
The point forms the southwest side of the entrance to Rodríguez Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Ramos Cove. The feature was named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Hernán Correa, cameraman for the state Directorate of Culture Information (''Dirección de Información de Cultura'') with the expedition; a 65 m rocky hill rising 350 m south of the point was named ''Picacho D.I.C.'' after the Directorate.


Location

The point is located at which is 5.37 km southwest of Ash Point, 1.42 km southwest of Ferrer Point and 1.16 km south-southeast of Labbé Point (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.


Notes


References


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