Piperkov Point

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Piperkov Point
Geographical location
Piperkov Point (South Shetland Islands)
Piperkov Point
Coordinates 61 ° 14 ′  S , 55 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 61 ° 14 ′  S , 55 ° 21 ′  W
location Elephant Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters Loper Canal
Waters 2 Krastanov Cove

The Piperkov Point ( English ; Bulgarian Пиперков нос Piperkow nos ) is a headland in the southwest of Elephant Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is 9.4 km northwest of Cape Lookout and 2.2 km southeast of Stinker Point and forms the northwest boundary of the entrance to Krastanov Cove .

The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2019. It is named after Captain Christo Piperkow, from 1988 to 1991 director of Ocean Fisheries in Burgas , whose fishing fleet in the waters around South Georgia from the early 1970s to the early 1990s , operated around the Kerguelen , around the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, and around the Antarctic Peninsula .

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