Kurilo Point

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Kurilo Point
Geographical location
Kurilo Point (South Shetland Islands)
Kurilo Point
Coordinates 62 ° 45 ′  S , 61 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 45 ′  S , 61 ° 15 ′  W
location Snow Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Bransfield Street

The Kurilo Point (English; Bulgarian нос Курило nos Kurilo ) is a 200 m long and non-iced headland on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 3.1 km southwest of President Head and 2.3 km north of the Hall Peninsula .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Kurilo in western Bulgaria .

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