Exotic Point (), on the southwest side of
Fildes Peninsula
The Fildes Peninsula is a long peninsula that forms the south-western end of King George Island (South Shetland Islands), King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named from association with nearby Fildes Strait b ...
, King George Island, Antarctica, is an entrance point to
Geographers Cove from the southwest. The name translates "Mys Ekzoticheskiy", the Russian name applied in 1968 by geologists from the
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. It was ...
. It may be named for its rocks, which differ from those neighboring the point.
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Headlands of Antarctica
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