Kakrina Point

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Kakrina Point
Geographical location
Kakrina Point (South Shetland Islands)
Kakrina Point
Coordinates 61 ° 10 ′  S , 54 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 61 ° 10 ′  S , 54 ° 1 ′  W
location Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Smith Cove
Waters 2 Southern ocean
length 400 m

The Kakrina Point (English; Bulgarian Нос Къкрина Nos Kakrina ) is a 400 m long and dominated by a rock headland on the east coast of Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 5.91 km north of Sugarloaf Island , 1.17 km north of Ilyo Point and 4.28 km south of Cape Lloyd on the north 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 town of Kakrina in northern Bulgaria .

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