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Elephant Point

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Location
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{{About|the promontory on Livingston Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula|the headland in Alaska's Kotzebue Sound|Elephant Point (Alaska)}}

Elephant Point is a small predominantly ice-free promontory projecting 2 km into Bransfield Strait at the south extremity of the west half of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the southwest side of the entrance to Kavarna Cove, and is surmounted by Rotch Dome on the north. Ice-free surface area {{convert|109|ha|acre}}.^[1] The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The point is named after the Elephant seal species.

Location

The southernmost point of the feature is located at {{coord|62|41|35|S|60|51|28|W|}} which is 12.1 km east-southeast of Nikopol Point, 3.95 km southeast of Clark Nunatak, 3.08 km southwest of Bond Point and 13.2 km west-southwest of Hannah Point. British mapping in 1821 and 1968, Spanish in 1991, 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.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. {{ISBN|978-619-90008-3-0}}

Notes

1. ^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

[https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=108660 Elephant Point.] SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

1 : Headlands of Livingston Island

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