Santa Cruz Point

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Santa Cruz Point
Punta Tac, Spencer Bluff
Bogdan-Livingston.jpg
View from English Strait to Bogdan Ridge with Santa Cruz Point
Geographical location
Santa Cruz Point (South Shetland Islands)
Santa Cruz Point
Coordinates 62 ° 30 ′  S , 59 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 30 ′  S , 59 ° 33 ′  W
location Greenwich Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters Bransfield Street
Waters 2 English Strait
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Map of Greenwich Island with Santa Cruz Point (right)

The Santa Cruz Point ( Spanish Punta Santa Cruz , in Chile Punta Tac , in the United Kingdom Spencer Bluff ) is a headland in the shape of a cliff that forms the eastern end of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Together with Edwards Point to the northeast of Robert Island , it marks the southeast entrance to English Strait .

The name of the headland was first recorded on an Argentine map from 1949. It is named after the Santa Cruz , an Argentine ship that was used in 1948 during a maneuver by the Argentine Navy in the waters around the South Shetland Islands. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1965. Participants of the 4th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1949–1950) named them after the acronym TAC for Territorio Antártico Chileno ( German  Chilean Antarctic Territory ). The name given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1962 is named after Robert Cavendish Spencer (1791-1830), captain of the HMS Owen Glendower , which was part of the South American fire of the Royal Navy in the period between 1819 and 1822, when the South Shetland Islands were discovered had heard.

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