# Scesa Point

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thumb|Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
thumb|Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island
'''Scesa Point''' is a rounded, low ice-free tipped point on the west coast of [Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula](/source/Ioannes_Paulus_II_Peninsula), western [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica) forming the north side of the entrance to [Zornitsa Cove](/source/Zornitsa_Cove).

The feature is named after Benjamín Scesa, a crewman of the [Argentine Navy](/source/Argentine_Navy) [Lockheed Neptune](/source/Lockheed_Neptune) aircraft that crashed in poor weather on the slopes of [Mount Friesland](/source/Mount_Friesland) on 15 September 1976.

==Location==
Scesa Point is located at {{coord|62|32|07|S|60|50|42|W|}} which is 6.92 km north-northeast of [Rowe Point](/source/Rowe_Point), 18 km east-northeast of [Essex Point](/source/Essex_Point), 5.18 km south by west of [Mercury Bluff](/source/Mercury_Bluff) and 9 km south-southwest of [Cape Shirreff](/source/Cape_Shirreff) (British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2017).

==Maps==
* L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](/source/%3Acommons%3AImage%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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}}
* L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island](/source/%3Acommons%3AFile%3ALivingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. {{ISBN|978-619-90008-3-0}}

==References==
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=102138 Cabo Scesa.] SCAR [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer)

Category:Headlands of Livingston Island

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