Riquelme Point
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Riquelme Point is a point projecting 450 m into the southwest 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 ...
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Parvomay Neck Parvomay Neck (, ‘Parvomayski Provlak’ \p&r-vo-'may-ski 'pro-vlak\) is the 5 km long and 1.55 to 3.5 km wide ice-covered neck between Discovery Bay to the northeast and Shopski Cove and Yankee Harbour to the southwest, linking the ...
,
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 ...
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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. ...
and forming the west side of the entrance to Vinett Cove. The feature was named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Signalman Riquelme, a crewman of the frigate ''Iquique''.


Location

The point is located at which is 1.3 km west-northwest of
Labbé Point Labbé Point is a point projecting into the southwest part of Discovery Bay from Parvomay Neck, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of .L.L. IvanovAntarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, ...
, 2.15 km south by east of Ortiz Point and 5.64 km south by west 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 ...
(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