Dreyfus Point

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Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

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″S60°50′11.4″W / 62.517639°S 60.836500°W / -62.517639; -60.836500 which is 2 km north-northeast of Scesa Point, 3.15 km south-southwest of Mercury Bluff, 7 km south-southwest of Cape Shirreff and 800 m southwest of Kudoglu Point (British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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