Kudoglu Point

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Kudoglu Point
Geographical location
Kudoglu Point (South Shetland Islands)
Kudoglu Point
Coordinates 62 ° 31 ′  S , 60 ° 50 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 31 ′  S , 60 ° 50 ′  W
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
coast Barclay Bay
length 150 m

The Kudoglu Point (English; Bulgarian нос Кудоглу nos Kudoglu ) is a low, non-iced and 150 m long headland on the west side of the John Paul II Peninsula of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It protrudes 0.8 km northeast of Dreyfus Point and 2.28 km south of Mercury Bluff into Barclay Bay .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2005, 2009 and 2017. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the Bulgarian businessman and philanthropist Dimitar Kudoglu (1862–1940).

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