Hospital Point

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Hospital Point
Punta Alfaro
Greenwich-Island.jpg
Map of Greenwich Island with Hospital Point (bottom center)
Geographical location
Hospital Point (South Shetland Islands)
Hospital Point
Coordinates 62 ° 31 ′  S , 59 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 31 ′  S , 59 ° 46 ′  W
location Greenwich Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters Yankee Harbor

The Hospital Point (in Chile Punta Alfaro ) is a headland in the form of an ice cliff interspersed with rocks on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the north bank of Yankee Harbor , it is immediately east of Glacier Bluff .

Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1935 and named it Rocky Point . To avoid duplication of names, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1961 to rename. The name that is used today is derived from the name Hospital Cove for Yankee Harbor, which was common among British sealers in the 1820s and British whalers in the 1920s. The namesake of the Chilean name is Mario Alfaro Cabrera, captain of the Yelcho in the 15th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1960–1961).

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