Damga Point
| Damga Point | ||
 Astrolabe Island with Damga Point (right in the foreground) |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 19 ′ S , 58 ° 44 ′ W | |
| location | Astrolabe Island | |
| Waters | Mokren Bight | |
| Waters 2 | Bransfield Street | |
The Damga Point (English, Bulgarian нос Дамга nos Damga ) is a rocky headland on the west coast of Astrolabe Island in the Bransfield Strait northwest of Trinity Peninsula of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It marks 1.58 km south of Raduil Point , 1.2 km southwest of Petleshkov Hill and 3.1 km northwest of Sherrell Point the northwest boundary of the entrance to Mokren Bight .
German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2018 after a mountain in the Bulgarian Rila Mountains .
Web links
- Damga Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)