Ortiz Point
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Ortiz Point is an ice-covered point on the northwest coast of Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica named after Engineman Ortiz, member of the expedition.
Location
The point is located at 62°28′23.7″S 59°45′30.2″W / 62.473250°S 59.758389°W which is 3.7 km south-southwest of Spark Point, 2.17 km southwest of Serrano Point, 5.35 km west-southwest of Ash Point, 3 km north-northwest of Labbé Point and 2.15 km north by west of Riquelme Point (Chilean mapping in 1951, British in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
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