Ivan Alexander Point

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Ivan Alexander Point
Grace Point
Geographical location
Ivan Alexander Point (South Shetland Islands)
Ivan Alexander Point
Coordinates 62 ° 21 ′  S , 58 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 21 ′  S , 58 ° 59 ′  W
location Nelson Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters Bononia Cove
Waters 2 Tuida Cove

The Ivan Alexander Point ( English ; Bulgarian нос Иван Александър nos Iwan Aleksandar ; in the United Kingdom Grace Point ) is a low and rocky headland on the southeast coast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms 7.34 km east of Ross Point , 8.64 km west-southwest of Duthoit Point , 4.17 km west-southwest of Slavotin Point and 1.73 km north-northeast of Grace Rock the east side of the entrance to Bononia Cove or the west side of those to Tuida Cove .

British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2009 after the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Alexander , who ruled from 1331 until his death in 1371. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee , however, named it in 2019 based on the Grace Rock. Its namesake is the British sealer Grace under Captain Henry Rowe, who operated between 1821 and 1822 in the waters around the South Shetland Islands.

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