Aglen Point

Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Aglen Point (Bulgarian: нос Ъглен, ‘Nos Aglen’ \'nos &-'glen\) is a rocky point forming the west side of the entrance to Richards Cove on the north coast of Ray Promontory in the northwestern part of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 470 m west of Voyteh Point and 1.6 km east of Essex Point. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The point is named after the settlement of Aglen in northern Bulgaria.

Location

Aglen Point is located at 62°34′41″S 61°09′14″W / 62.57806°S 61.15389°W / -62.57806; -61.15389Coordinates: 62°34′41″S 61°09′14″W / 62.57806°S 61.15389°W / -62.57806; -61.15389. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Maps

L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

Aglen Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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