Gesha Point

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Gesha Point
Geographical location
Gesha Point (South Shetland Islands)
Gesha Point
Coordinates 61 ° 12 ′  S , 54 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 61 ° 12 ′  S , 54 ° 4 ′  W
location Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Ortscho glacier
Waters 2 Treskawez Glacier

The Gesha Point (English; Bulgarian Нос Геша Nos Gescha ) is a small headland on the east coast of Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It separates 3.87 km southwest of Ilyo Point and 2.4 km northwest of Sugarloaf Island, the mouths of the Ortscho and Treskawez glaciers in the Southern Ocean .

British scientists mapped it in 1972 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Gescha in northern Bulgaria .

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