Essex Point

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Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Byers-Peninsula-location-map.png
Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Byers Peninsula featuring Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 and its two restricted zones ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png
Topographic map of Byers Peninsula featuring Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 and its two restricted zones
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Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Essex Point is a point at the northwest end of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the west side of the entrance to Barclay Bay and the northeast side of the entrance to Svishtov Cove, and is surmounted by Drong Hill.

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The feature is part of the Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula, situated in one of its restricted zones. [1]

It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) in 1958 after the American sealing ship Essex (under Captain Chester), one of the fleet of American sealers from Stonington, CT, which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21 and 1821–22. [2]

Location

The point is located at 62°34′33.9″S61°11′02″W / 62.576083°S 61.18389°W / -62.576083; -61.18389 which is 2.18 km northeast of Start Point and 24.16 kn southwest of Cape Shirreff (Argentine mapping in 1954, British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005, 2009 and 2017).

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PD-icon.svg This article incorporates public domain material from "Essex Point". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.