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Dreyfus Point

Dreyfus Point is a rounded low point on the west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

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The feature is named after Iván Dreyfus, an Air Force engineer who participated in the 1949 Chilean Antarctic Expedition.

Location

Dreyfus Point is located at 62°31′03.5″S 60°50′11.4″W which is 2 km north-northeast of Scesa Point, 3.15 km south-southwest of Mercury Bluff and 7 km south-southwest of Cape Shirreff (British mapping 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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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