Ilyo Point

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Ilyo Point
Geographical location
Ilyo Point (South Shetland Islands)
Ilyo Point
Coordinates 61 ° 11 ′  S , 54 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 61 ° 11 ′  S , 54 ° 2 ′  W
location Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Smith Cove
Waters 2 Southern ocean
length 600 m

The Ilyo Point (English; Bulgarian Нос Ильо Nos Iljo ) is a narrow rocky and 600 m long headland on the east coast of Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 4.77 km north of Sugarloaf Island , 1.17 km south of Kakrina Point and 5.45 km south of Cape Lloyd on the south side of the entrance to Smith Cove .

British scientists mapped it in 1972 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the Bulgarian rebel leader Iljo Wojwoda (1805–1898).

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