Labbé Point Explained

Labbé Point
Map:Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica
Location:Antarctica
Coordinates:-62.4971°N -59.7312°W
Archipelago:South Shetland Islands
Length Km:0.6
Population:Uninhabited
Country:None
Treaty System:Antarctic Treaty System

Labbé Point is a point projecting 600m (2,000feet) into the southwest part of Discovery Bay from Parvomay Neck, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of 11ha.[1] The point forms the northwest side of the entrance to Basullo Cove and the east side of the entrance to Vinett Cove (-62.495°N -59.7486°W). The small Basso Island (-62.4941°N -59.7339°W) is linked by a mainly submerged spit to the north side of Labbé Point.

The features were charted and named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after members of the expedition: Lieutenant Custodio Labbé, navigation officer of the transport ship Angamos; Vinett, the boatswain of the expedition; and Juan Basso, chief storekeeper on the frigate Iquique.

Location

The point is located at -62.4971°N -59.7312°W which is 5.08km (03.16miles) southwest of Ash Point, 1.79km (01.11miles) west by north of Ferrer Point, 1.3km (00.8miles) east-southeast of Riquelme Point, 31NaN1 south-southeast of Ortiz Point and 5.97km (03.71miles) south of Spark Point (Chilean mapping in 1951, British in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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Notes and References

  1. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.