Kitchen Point is a rocky point at the east end of Tirizis Island off the east coast of

Robert Island Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island long and wide, situated between Nelson Island and Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Robert Island is located at . Surface area . ...

in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...

. It is projecting into

Bransfield Strait Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea ( es, Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. History ...

to form the southeast side of the entrance to

Kozloduy Cove Kozloduy Cove ( bg, залив Козлодуй, zaliv Kozloduy, ) is a 1.4 km wide cove indenting for 1.25 km the east coast of Robert Island, South Shetland Islands between Kitchen Point and Perelik Point. Bulgarian early mapping in ...

and the north side of the entrance to Kruni Cove. The feature is named after the Captain Joseph Kitchen, Master of the British sealing ship ''Ann'' that visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.

Location

The point is located at which 7.25 km north by east of Robert Point, 1.9 km north (and marginally west) of Batuliya Point, 1.56 km southeast of

Perelik Point Perelik Point ( bg, нос Перелик, ‘Nos Perelik’ \'nos pe-re-'lik\) is a point on the north side of the entrance to Kozloduy Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Garnya Cove on the east coast of Robert Island in the South ...

, 2.75 km southeast of

Smirnenski Point Smirnenski Point ( bg, нос Смирненски, ‘Nos Smirnenski’ \'nos 'smir-nen-ski\) is a narrow, ice-free point on the east coast of Robert Island projecting 1.1 km into Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, ...

, and 12.33 km west-southwest of

Ross Point Ross Point () is a point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Varvara Cove on the southwest side of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, situated 7.85 km southeast of Harmony Point. The point was charted by DI personnel on t ...

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

Maps

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

References

Kitchen Point.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Headlands of Robert Island {{RobertIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References