Placard Point
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Coordinates | 65 ° 28 ′ S , 65 ° 32 ′ W | |
location | Pickwick Island , Pitt Islands in the Biscoe Islands archipelago | |
Waters | Southern ocean | |
Waters 2 | Misionis Bay |
The Plakuder Point (English; Bulgarian нос Плакудер nos Plakuder ) is a headland on the northeast coast of Pickwick Island in the Pitt Islands group in the Biscoe Islands archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms 1.6 km east-southeast of Kusev Point and 1.6 km west-southwest of Snodgrass Island the eastern limit of the entrance to Misionis Bay .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Plakuder in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Plakuder Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)