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Correa Point is a point projecting 350 m into the south part of Discovery Bay from Parvomay Neck, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of 17 hectares (42 acres). The point forms the southwest side of the entrance to Rodríguez Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Ramos Cove.
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The feature was named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Hernán Correa, cameraman for the state Directorate of Culture Information (Dirección de Información de Cultura) with the expedition; a 65 m rocky hill rising 350 m south of the point was named Picacho D.I.C. after the Directorate.
Location
The point is located at 62°30′21.5″S 59°43′10.3″W which is 5.37 km southwest of Ash Point, 1.42 km southwest of Ferrer Point and 1.16 km south-southeast of Labbé Point (Chilean mapping in 1951, British in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).