Agüero Point

Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Agüero Point (on the left) and Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula in the background, from Catalunyan Saddle; Burdick Ridge in the foreground.

Agüero Point is a trapezoid-shaped and mostly ice-covered point projecting 900 m east-northeastwards from the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the south side of the entrance to Stoyanov Cove and the north side of the entrance to Prisoe Cove, and separates the termini of Urdoviza Glacier to the north from Medven Glacier to the south.

The feature is named after Clodomiro Agüero Soto, a crewman of the Chilean naval vessel Yelcho which rescued the Ernest Shackleton's expedition fellows members from Elephant Island in 1916.

Location

The point is located at 62°32′24″S 60°40′43″W / 62.54000°S 60.67861°W / -62.54000; -60.67861 which is 6.3 km south by east of Black Point and 3.9 km north-northwest of Avitohol Point (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

See also

• Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula
• Livingston Island

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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.