Avitohol Point
Avitohol Point Crampton Point |
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Coordinates | 62 ° 34 ′ S , 60 ° 37 ′ W | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Waters | Prisoe Cove | |
Waters 2 | Skravena Cove | |
length | 700 m |
The Avitohol Point (English; Bulgarian нос Авитохол nos Awitochol ; in the United Kingdom Crampton Point ) is a 700 m long headland on the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 3 km northeast of Snow Peak , 9.6 km west-southwest of Siddons Point and 14.6 km southeast of Cape Shirreff on the banks of Hero Bay and separates Prisoe Cove in the north-west from Skravena Cove in the south-east.
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after Avitochol , the first named in the Bulgarian princely line . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2019 after the New Zealand paleontologist James Crampton of the Victoria University of Wellington , who worked on the Byers Peninsula from 1990 to 1991 in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey .
Web links
- Avitohol Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Crampton Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)