Ivan Asen Point (Bulgarian: Нос Иван Асен, ‘Nos Ivan Asen’ \'nos i-'van a-'sen\) is a narrow rocky point projecting 680 m into Osmar Strait from the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the south side of the entrance to an 1.15 km wide cove indenting the coast for 980 m, and named Ivan Asen Cove () in association with the point.
The point is named after Czar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, 1218-1241 AD.
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The point is located at which is 12.5 km northeast of Cape James, 20.5 km southwest of Cape Smith, 3.8 km south-southeast of the island’s summit Mount Foster (2105 m), and 3.45 km southeast of Slaveykov Peak (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).
