Rish Point
| Rish Point | ||
 Map of the Byers Peninsula with Rish Point |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 40 ′ S , 60 ° 56 ′ W | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| coast | South Beaches | |
| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| length | 300 m | |
The Rish Point (English; Bulgarian нос Риш nos Risch ) is a 300 long and non-iced headland on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.37 km northwest of Amadok Point , 1.2 km southwest of Clark Nunatak and 1 km northeast of Stackpole Rocks at the eastern end of the South Beaches .
British scientists mapped it in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2006 after the town of Risch in eastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Rish Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)