Kitchen Point is a rocky point at the end of a narrow promontory projecting 1.2 km into Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. It was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland...

 from the east coast of Robert Island

Robert Island (South Shetland Islands)

Robert Island or Mitchells Island or Polotsk Island or Roberts Island is an island long and wide, situated between Nelson Island and Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands. Robert Island is located at . 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 to form the southeast side of the entrance to Kozloduy Cove

Kozloduy Cove

Kozloduy Cove is a 1.4 km wide cove indenting for 1.25 km the east coast of Robert Island, South Shetland Islands between Kitchen Point and Perelik Point. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. Named after the town of Kozloduy in northwestern Bulgaria....

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The feature is named after the Captain Joseph Kitchen, Master of the British sealing

Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

 ship Ann that visited the South Shetland Islands in 1821–22.

Location

The point is located at 62°23′14.4"S 59°20′42"W which 7.25 km north by east of Robert Point

Robert Point

Robert Point is a rocky point at the end of a small peninsula projecting 2.7 km into Bransfield Strait from the southeast coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica to form the east side of the entrance to Devesil Bight....

, 1.9 km north (and marginally west) of Batuliya Point

Batuliya Point

Batuliya Point is an ice-free tipped point forming the east extremity of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point, projecting 550 m into Bransfield Strait, is situated 5.4 km northeast of the southeast extremity of Robert Point, 3 km north-northeast of Sadala...

, 1.56 km southeast of Perelik Point

Perelik Point

Perelik Point is a point on the north side of the entrance to Kozloduy Cove on the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting for 900 m into Nelson Strait. Situated 1.4 km northwest of Kitchen Point and 1.2 km southeast of Smirnenski Point. ...

, 2.75 km southeast of Smirnenski Point

Smirnenski Point

Smirnenski Point is a narrow, ice-free point on the east coast of Robert Island projecting 1.1 km into Nelson Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.2 km northwest of Perelik Point, 4.4 km north-northwest of Batuliya Point, 1.42 km east of Treklyano...

, and 12.33 km west-southwest of Ross Point

Ross Point

Ross Point is a point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Varvara Cove on the southwest side of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, situated 7.85 km southeast of Harmony Point. The point was charted by DI personnel on the Discovery II in 1935.-References:* ....

, Nelson Island

Nelson Island (South Shetland Islands)

Nelson Island is an island long and wide, lying southwest of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Nelson Island is located at...

(Chilean mapping in 1951, British mapping in 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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4