Retamales Point

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Retamales Point
Geographical location
Retamales Point (South Shetland Islands)
Retamales Point
Coordinates 62 ° 15 ′  S , 59 ° 9 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 15 ′  S , 59 ° 9 ′  W
location Nelson Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Argonavt Cove
Waters 2 Hall Cove
length 700 m

The Retamales Point (English; Bulgarian нос Ретамалес nos Retamales ) is a rocky and 700 m long headland on the northwest coast of Nelson Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms 7.92 km northeast of Harmony Point , 2.85 km northeast of Smilets Point , 1.75 km south of Withem Island and 8.64 km west to south of Rip Point the northeast boundary of the entrance to Hall Cove and separates it from Argonavt Cove .

British scientists mapped them in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2014 after José Retamales Espinoza (* 1948), director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute, in recognition of his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic program.

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