Agüero Point


Agüero Point is the southeast extremity of a trapezoid-shaped and mostly ice-covered headland projecting 900 m from the east coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the north side of the entrance to Prisoe Cove and, together with nearby Arroyo Point, separates the termini of Urdoviza Glacier to the north from Medven Glacier to the south.
The feature is named after Clodomiro Agüero Soto, a crewman of the Chilean naval vessel Yelcho which rescued the Ernest Shackleton's expedition fellows members from Elephant Island in 1916.

Location

The point is located at which is 850 m south-southeast of Arroyo Point, 6.4 km south by east of Black Point and 4 km northwest of Avitohol Point.

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