Shipot Point
| Shipot Point | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 21 ′ S , 59 ° 40 ′ W | |
| location | Robert Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Waters 2 | Clothier Harbor | |
| length | 630 m | |
The Shipot Point (English; Bulgarian нос Шипот nos Shipot ) is a 630 m long and non-iced headland on the northwest coast of Robert Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms 3.63 km northeast of Fort William and 1.36 km southwest of Hammer Point together with Osenovlag Island and Svetulka Island from the group of Onogur Islands, the southwest side of Clothier Harbor .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Schipot in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Shipot Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)