Garmen Point
| Garmen Point | ||
 Map of Smith Island with Garmen Point |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 59 ′ S , 62 ° 36 ′ W | |
| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Drake Street | |
The Garmen Point (English; Bulgarian нос Гърмен nos Garmen ) is a headland on the northwest coast of Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . North of the confluence of the Bistra Glacier in the Drake Strait , it is 13 km north-northeast of Cape James and 18.3 km southwest of Cape Smith . It is an offshoot of Mount Foster .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Garmen in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Garmen Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)