Agat Point
| Agat Point | ||
 The Agat Point (upper half of the picture, right) with the mouth of the Baranowski Glacier (left) and the Staszek Cove behind it |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 12 ′ S , 58 ° 26 ′ W | |
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Admiralty Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Staszek Cove | |
The Agat Point (English for agate tip , Polish Przylądek Agat ) is a headland on the west bank of Admiralty Bay of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately north of Staszek Cove .
Polish scientists named it in 1980 after the agate deposit discovered here .
Web links
- Agat Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of place names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 273. Retrieved on February 21, 2019