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Scesa Point

Scesa Point is a rounded, low ice-free tipped point on the west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Zornitsa Cove.

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Scesa Point is a rounded, low ice-free tipped point on the west coast of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance to Zornitsa Cove.

The feature is named after Benjamín Scesa, a crewman of the Argentine Navy Lockheed Neptune aircraft that crashed in poor weather on the slopes of Mount Friesland on 15 September 1976.

Location

Scesa Point is located at 62°32′07″S 60°50′42″W / 62.53528°S 60.84500°W / -62.53528; -60.84500 which is 6.92 km north-northeast of Rowe Point, 18 km east-northeast of Essex Point, 5.18 km south by west of Mercury Bluff and 9 km south-southwest of Cape Shirreff (British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2017).

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