Ferrer Point is a point projecting 700 m into the south part of

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in the

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with an adjacent ice-free area of .L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. The point forms the west side of the entrance to Montecinos Cove and the northeast side of the entrance to ''Rodríguez Cove'' (). The point was charted by the 1950-51 Chilean Antarctic Expedition and named after First Lieutenant Fernando Ferrer, hydrographic officer on the transport ship ''Angamos'' during the expedition, while the cove was named by the 1947 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after Captain Rodríguez, Operations Officer of the expedition.

Location

The point is located at which is 4.03 km south-southwest of

Ash Point 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 .L.L. IvanovAntarctica: Livingst ...

, 1.79 km east by south of Labbé Point and 6.36 km south-southeast of

Spark Point Spark Point, also ''Canto Point'', is a rocky point forming the northwest side of the entrance to both Discovery Bay and Galápagos Cove, and the east side of the entrance to Jambelí Cove in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetl ...

(Chilean mapping in 1947, 1951 and 1961, British in 1965 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

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References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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