Esteverena Point

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Esteverena Point
Geographical location
Esteverena Point (South Shetland Islands)
Esteverena Point
Coordinates 62 ° 47 ′  S , 61 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 47 ′  S , 61 ° 32 ′  W
location Snow Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Boyd Strait
Waters 2 Ensenada Del Mármol

The Esteverena Point (English; Spanish Punta Esteverena ) is a headland in the west of Snow Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately southwest of Byewater Point and limits the entrance to Ensenada Del Mármol in the north .

Argentine scientists named them after Corvette Captain Horacio Alberto Esteverena (* 1914), the ship's captain of the Granville on an Argentine Antarctic expedition that was carried out between 1947 and 1948.

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