Iratais Point

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Iratais Point
Geographical location
Iratais Point (South Shetland Islands)
Iratais Point
Coordinates 62 ° 28 ′  S , 60 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 28 ′  S , 60 ° 20 ′  W
location Desolation Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Hero Bay
Waters 2 Neck or Nothing Passage

The Iratais Point (English; Bulgarian нос Иратаис nos Iratais ) is a headland at the southern end of Desolation Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is separated from the Miladinovi Islets to the south by the Neck or Nothing Passage .

British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2006 after Iratais , Kawkhan under Khan Krum in the southern Bulgarian Black Sea region in the 9th century .

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