# Spark Point

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{{Short description|Heographic feature in Antarctica}}
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thumb|Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
'''Spark Point''', also ''Canto Point'', is a rocky point forming the northwest side of the entrance to both [Discovery Bay](/source/Discovery_Bay_(Antarctica)) and [Galápagos Cove](/source/Gal%C3%A1pagos_Cove), and the east side of the entrance to [Jambelí Cove](/source/Jambel%C3%AD_Cove) in the northeast of [Greenwich Island](/source/Greenwich_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands)) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica).  The point ends up in a conspicuous [monolith](/source/monolith)ic formation and has an adjacent ice-free area of {{convert|164|ha|acre}}.<ref name=area>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}}</ref>  The area was visited by early 19th century [sealers](/source/seal_hunting).

The feature is named after the [American](/source/US) sealing schooner ''Spark'' which operated out of the nearby [Clothier Harbour](/source/Clothier_Harbour) in 1820–21.

==Location==
The point is located at {{coord|62|26|36.7|S|59|43|35|W|}} which is {{convert|4.57|km|mi|abbr=on}} northwest of [Ash Point](/source/Ash_Point), {{convert|3.02|km|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of [Dee Island](/source/Dee_Island), {{convert|4|km|mi|2|abbr=on}} south-southeast of [Barrientos Island](/source/Barrientos_Island), {{convert|8.06|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of [Fort William Point](/source/Fort_William_(Robert_Island)), [Robert Island](/source/Robert_Island_(South_Shetland_Islands)) and {{convert|6.43|km|mi|abbr=on}} southwest of [Negra Point](/source/Negra_Point), Robert Island. British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Argentine in 1949, Chilean in 1965, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

== See also ==
* [Composite Antarctic Gazetteer](/source/Composite_Antarctic_Gazetteer)
* [List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands](/source/List_of_Antarctic_and_sub-Antarctic_islands)
* [List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S](/source/List_of_Antarctic_and_sub-Antarctic_islands)
* [SCAR](/source/Scientific_Committee_on_Antarctic_Research)
* [Territorial claims in Antarctica](/source/Territorial_claims_in_Antarctica)

==Map==
* 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.

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/ SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer].

{{South Shetlands}}

Category:Headlands of Greenwich Island

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