Dometa Point
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![]() Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Dometa Point |
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Coordinates | 62 ° 40 ′ S , 61 ° 1 ′ W | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
coast | Bransfield Street |
The Dometa Point (English; Bulgarian нос Домета nos Dometa ) is a low and non-iced headland on the south coast of the Byers Peninsula in the west of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 4.21 km east-northeast ees Nikopol Point , 4.64 km southeast of Chester Cone , 1.11 km south-southwest of Negro Hill and 8.7 km west-northwest of Elephant Point .
British scientists mapped them in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them after Dometa , administrator of the province of Kutmichevitsa during the council under Tsar Boris I with the participation of Kliment von Ohrid in the 9th century .
Web links
- Dometa Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)