Elephant Point

This article is about the promontory on Livingston Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. For the headland in Alaska's Kotzebue Sound, see Elephant Point (Alaska).
Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Elephant Point (on the left) from near Hannah Point
South Beaches from Basalt Lake vicinity on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, with Clark Nunatak, Ritli Hill, Elephant Point and Telish Rock in the left background, Stackpole Rocks on the right and Deception Island on the horizon
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island
Elephant seal on Antarctic hair-grass at Elephant Point

Elephant Point is a small predominantly ice-free promontory projecting 2 km into Bransfield Strait at the south extremity of the west half of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point forms the southwest side of the entrance to Kavarna Cove, and is surmounted by Rotch Dome on the north. Ice-free surface area 109 hectares (270 acres).[1] Dryad Lake is situated on the west side of the point. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The feature is named after the Elephant seal species.

  1. ^ 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