Kosar Point

	Kosar Point
	; Topographic map sheet (1: 250,000) with the Eroica Peninsula (top right) and Kosar Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	71 ° 8 ′ S , 73 ° 8 ′ W Coordinates: 71 ° 8 ′ S , 73 ° 8 ′ W
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Waters	Wilkins Sound
Waters 2	Wilkins Ice Shelf and Mendelssohn Inlet

The Kosar Point is a snow-covered headland in southwest West Antarctic Alexander Island . It forms the western end of the Eroica Peninsula .

The British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition . Further mapping was carried out by the United States Geological Survey using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy from 1967 to 1968 and Landsat photographs from 1972 and 1973. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them after Commander William S. Kosar von der US Navy, who was responsible for air missions in the Department of Polar Programs of the National Science Foundation from 1975 to 1977 and was instrumental in the technical modification of the LC-130 Hercules to a long-range aircraft for radar measurements .

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