Butrointsi Point

Location of Two Hummock Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Butrointsi Point (Bulgarian: нос Бутроинци, ‘Nos Butrointsi’ \'nos bu-'tro-in-tsi\) is the ice-free tipped point on the southeast side of the entrance to Kotev Cove on the northeast coast of Two Hummock Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

The point is named after the settlement of Butrointsi in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Butrointsi Point is located at 64°06′36.6″S 61°40′51″W / 64.110167°S 61.68083°W / -64.110167; -61.68083Coordinates: 64°06′36.6″S 61°40′51″W / 64.110167°S 61.68083°W / -64.110167; -61.68083, which is 2.55 km southeast of Wauters Point, 7.38 km north of Veyka Point, and 31.8 km west by south of Cape Sterneck (Herschel) on the Antarctic Peninsula. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

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

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

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