Ash Point

{{Short description|Ice-free point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica}}

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| coordinates = {{coord|62|28|05|S|59|39|19|W|}}

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Ash Point is a rounded low ice-free point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Discovery Bay in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with an adjacent ice-free area of {{convert|201|ha|acre}}.L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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}} Letelier Bank ({{coord|62|28|01.1|S|59|39|28.8|W|}}) is lying off Ash Point, while Bascopé Point ({{coord|62|28|15.3|S|59|39|42|W|}}) is situated {{convert|460|m|yd|0|abbr=on}}to the southwest, with the {{convert|1|km|mi|2|abbr=on}} wide Rojas Cove ({{coord|62|28|31|S|59|39|48|W|}}) indenting for {{convert|310|m|yd|0|abbr=on}} the coast between that point and Guesalaga Peninsula. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

Ash Point was charted and named descriptively by the Discovery Investigations in 1935. Bascopé Point and Rojas Cove were named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition respectively for First Lieutenant Juan Bascopé, meteorologist of the expedition, and for Captain Gabriel Rojas, Commander of the expedition transport ship Angamos, and Letelier Bank was probably named after a member of the expedition.