Point Smellie

	Point Smellie
	; Map of the Byers Peninsula (Livingston Island) with Point Smelli
	Geographical location
Coordinates	62 ° 39 ′ S , 61 ° 9 ′ W Coordinates: 62 ° 39 ′ S , 61 ° 9 ′ W
location	Livingston Island ( South Shetland Islands )
coast	President Beaches ( Byers Peninsula )
Waters	Osogovo Bay
height	46 m

The Point Smellie is a small headland with steep cliffs in the west of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Byers Peninsula , it extends from President Beaches into Osogovo Bay . The highest point is the Cerro Smellie at 46 m .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1978 after John Laidlaw Smellie (* 1953), geologist of the British Antarctic Survey , who was involved in the exploration of the area around the headland between 1975 and 1976.

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