Figueroa Point is an ice-free point at the northeast extremity of

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. ...

forming the southeast side of the entrance to

Galápagos Cove Galápagos Cove is the small, 210 m wide cove indenting for 70 m the northeast coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Spark Point and Figueroa Point. The feature is named after the Galápagos Islan ...

. ''Dovizio Rock'' () is lying to the northeast,

Ibar Rocks The Ibar Rocks are two rocks located east of Bonert Rock and southeast of Canto Point, Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The names "Islote Ibar" and "Islote Teniente Ibar" appearing on Chilean hydrographic charts in the 1950s ...

() are centred to the southeast, ''Bonert Rock'' is to the south-southeast and ''Rosales Rocks'' are south by east of Figueroa Point. 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 ...

. The point is named after First Lieutenant Emiliano Figueroa González, navigation officer aboard the transport ship ''Angamos'' during the 1950-51 Chilean Antarctic Expedition, and the rocks are named respectively after Sargeant Dovizio, member of the 1948-49 Chilean Antarctic Expedition; Second Lieutenant Mario Ibar, in charge of the marines onboard the frigate ''Iquique'' during the 1946-47 Chilean Antarctic Expedition; Captain Federico Bonert, second in command of the transport ship ''Angamos'' during the 1950-51 Chilean Antarctic Expedition; and Sergeant Rosales, coppersmith in the frigate ''Iquique'' during the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition.

Location

Figueroa Point is located at which is southeast of

Spark Point Spark Point, also ''Canto Point'', is a rocky point forming the northwest side of the entrance to both Discovery Bay and Galápagos Cove, and the east side of the entrance to Jambelí Cove in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetl ...

, southwest of Negra 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 ...

, southwest of

Ash Point Ash Point is a rounded low ice-free point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Discovery Bay in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of .L.L. IvanovAntarctica: Livings ...

and north by east of Serrano Point, Greenwich Island (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Argentine in 1949 and 1980, Chilean in 1951, 1965 and 1971, 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

External links

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Livingston-Island-Map-2010

Headlands of Greenwich Island {{GreenwichIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Maps

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