Herring Point
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 Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Rugged Island (left) and Herring Point |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 37 ′ S , 61 ° 12 ′ W | |
| location | Rugged Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | New Plymouth | |
| Waters 2 | Hersilia Cove | |
| length | 750 m | |
The Herring Point (English; Bulgarian нос Херинг nos Chering ) is a rocky and 750 m long headland at the northwest end of Rugged Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms the east side of the entrance to Hersilia Cove and is 4.9 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield , 1.63 km east-southeast of Ivan Vladislav Point and 1.3 km northwest of Vund Point .
British Scientists mapped in 1968, Spain in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission named it in 2006 after the British sealers Captain Joseph Herring, who in Hersilia Cove with his ship on December 25, 1819 Espirito Santo , the Had established seal hunting in Antarctica or south of the 60th parallel.
Web links
- Herring Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)