Ash Point

Ash Point

Location of Ash Point
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Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°28′05″S 59°39′19″W / 62.46806°S 59.65528°W / -62.46806; -59.65528
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Area	201 ha (500 acres)
Administration
Antarctica
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

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 201 hectares (500 acres).^[1] Letelier Bank (62°28′01.1″S 59°39′28.8″W / 62.466972°S 59.658000°W / -62.466972; -59.658000) is lying off Ash Point, while Bascopé Point (62°28′15.3″S 59°39′42″W / 62.470917°S 59.66167°W / -62.470917; -59.66167) is situated 460 m (503 yd)to the southwest, with the 1 km (0.62 mi) wide Rojas Cove (62°28′31″S 59°39′48″W / 62.47528°S 59.66333°W / -62.47528; -59.66333) indenting for 310 m (339 yd) 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.