Veshka Point
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Coordinates | 65 ° 58 ′ S , 65 ° 4 ′ W | |
location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
coast | Graham coast | |
Waters | Hoek glacier | |
Waters 2 | Rusalka glacier | |
length | 1.4 m |
The Veshka Point (English, Bulgarian нос Вешка nos Weschka ) is a 1.4 kilometer long headland of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . On the banks of Dimitrov Cove , it separates 4.14 km east-southeast of Pripek Point , 1.7 km south of Camacúa Island and 4 km southwest of Biser Point, the mouth of the Hoek Glacier in the southwest from that of the Rusalka Glacier in the northeast.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after Mount Weschka in the Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains .
Web links
- Veshka Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)