Sparadok Point
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![]() Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Sparadok Point |
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Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ S , 61 ° 0 ′ W | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
coast | Robbery Beaches | |
Waters | Barclay Bay | |
length | 200 m |
The Sparadok Point (English; Bulgarian нос Спарадок nos Sparadok ) is a 200 m long, pointed, low and non-iced headland on the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located 2.23 km southeast of Lair Point and 1.58 km southwest of Nedelya Point on Robbery Beaches in the north of the Byers Peninsula .
British scientists mapped them in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission on Antarctic Geographical Names named them Sparadok , King of the Thracians from 445 BC in 2006 . BC to 435 BC Chr.
Web links
- Sparadok Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)