Voyteh Point
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Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Voyteh Point |
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Coordinates | 62 ° 35 ′ S , 61 ° 9 ′ W | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Waters | Richards Cove | |
Waters 2 | Drake Street |
The Voyteh Point (English; Bulgarian нос Войтех nos Wojtech ) is a headland of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the north coast of the Ray Promontory in the northwest of the Byers Peninsula , it forms the east side of the entrance to Richards Cove . It is an extension of Sàbat Hill and is 2.05 km east of Essex Point , 0.47 km east-southeast of Aglen Point and 4.69 km northwest of Varadero Point .
British scientists mapped them in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2010. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2006 after Georgie Wojtech († 1072), Kawkhan under the Bulgarian Tsar Peter III.
Web links
- Voyteh Point in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)