Agüedo Point is the point forming the north extremity of Greenwich Island

Greenwich Island (South Shetland Islands)

Greenwich Island is an island long and from wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area...

 in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica and the west side of the entrance to Guayaquil Bay

Guayaquil Bay

Guayaquil Bay is the 2.59 km wide bay indenting for 1.25 km the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Agüedo Point and Orión Point. The bay is used by ships servicing the Ecuadorian Antarctic base Pedro Vicente Maldonado situated...

. An adjacent ice-free area of 80 hectares (197.7 acre), the western part of which features a minor point situated 1 km west of Agüedo Point and forming the east side of the entrance to Skaptopara Cove

Skaptopara Cove

Skaptopara Cove is a 2 km wide cove indenting for 900 m the north coast of Skaptopara Cove is a 2 km wide cove indenting for 900 m the north coast of...

.

Location

The point is located at 62°26′28"S 59°47′23"W which is 3.2 km west of Spark Point

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 Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point ends up in a conspicuous...

, 2.72 km northeast of Mount Plymouth

Mount Plymouth

Mount Plymouth is a conspicuous peak rising to 520 m in the northeast extremity of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 5.6 km east by north of Aprilov Point

Aprilov Point

Aprilov Point is a point on the north coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica situated 6.9 km east of Duff Point, 2.1 km east-southeast of Kabile Island, 2.2 km east-northeast of Crutch Peaks, 1.8 km south of Ongley Island, 5.5 km west of Agüedo Point, and 2.3 km...

, and 850 m south of Dee Island

Dee Island

Dee Island is the ice-free island lying between Greenwich Island and Aitcho Islands in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is separated from Greenwich Island to the south by the wide Orión Passage and from Aitcho Islands to the northeast by the wide Villalón Passage. Extending , with the...

 from which it is separated by Orión Passage (British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1998, 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.

Reference

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.