Black Point (Livingston Island)

Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Black Point and Porlier Bay from Cape Shirreff, with Tangra Mountains in the background
Black Point in the background (on the right, with Cape Shirreff behind it) from Catalunyan Saddle; Burdick Ridge in the foreground
Topographic map of Livingston Island

Black Point is a rocky promontory of 38 hectares (94 acres)[1] projecting 800 m northwards from the northeast coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula into Hero Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica to form the east side of the entrance to Porlier Bay. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The name of the point is a descriptive one. Fortín Rock is a sea stack lying off Black Point.

  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