Monroe Point is an ice-free tipped point projecting 1.1 km into

Boyd Strait Boyd Strait is the wide strait lying between Snow Island and Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and linking Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait. The strait was named in 1823 by a British expedition under James Weddell ...

from the west coast of Snow Island in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

, and forming the south side of the entrance to

Barutin Cove Barutin Cove ( bg, text=залив Барутин, italic=no, ‘Zaliv Barutin’ \'za-liv 'ba-ru-tin\) is the 2.05 km wide cove indenting for 1.03 km the southwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is ...

. The feature's name derives from the name 'Monroe Island' applied to Snow Island by 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

Location

The point is located at which is 4.1 km south by east of

Esteverena Point Esteverena Point is the rocky point projecting 700 m into Boyd Strait to form the west extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is named by Argentina. Location The cape is located at which is 2.89 k ...

, 5.58 km northwest of

Cape Conway Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait. ''Tooth Rock'' () rising to and lying to the south is ...

and 40.54 km east-northeast of Cape Smith, Smith Island (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2009).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Headlands of the South Shetland Islands {{SnowIsland-geo-stub