Simitli Point
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 Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Rugged Island (left) and Simitli Point |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 37 ′ S , 61 ° 15 ′ W | |
| location | Rugged Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Waters 2 | Timok Cove | |
The Simitli Point (English; Bulgarian нос Симитли nos Simitli ) is a rocky headland on the north coast of Rugged Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It forms the east side of the entrance to Timok Cove and is 0.4 km west-southwest of Ivan Vladislav Point , 2.91 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield , 1.16 km east-southeast of Chiprovtsi Point and 3.61 km southwest of the start point of neighboring Livingston -Island .
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 Simitli in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Simitli Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)