Byewater Point
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Byewater Point is the rocky point forming the northwest extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a north entrance point for Boyd Strait. Elysian Beach extends 2 km (1.2 mi) eastwards from the point. The area was visited by 19th century sealers.
The feature was charted and named in 1829 by the British naval expedition under Captain Henry Foster.
Location
[edit | edit source]The cape is located at Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. which is 10.3 km (6.4 mi) southwest of Cape Timblón, 10.58 km (6.57 mi) north-northwest of Cape Conway and 42.8 km (26.6 mi) east-northeast of Cape Smith, Smith Island (British mapping in 1968, Argentine in 1991, Bulgarian in 2009).
Map
[edit | edit source]- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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