Elemag Point

Location of Moon Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Elemag Point

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

Elemag Point (Nos Elemag \'nos 'e-le-mag\) is a point on the coast of Moon Bay in Livingston Island, Antarctica situated 6.75 km south-southwest of Edinburgh Hill, 1.76 km southeast of Sindel Point, 3.05 km east of Sliven Peak, 2.05 km northeast of Zlatograd Rock, and 5,57 km northwest of Rila Point. Separates the glacier termini of Struma Glacier to the north and Huron Glacier to the south. Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05.

Named after Elemag, governor of the southwestern region of Bulgaria with provincial capital town Belgrad (Berat) under Tsar Samuel, Tsar Gavril Radomir, and Tsar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria (10-11th century AD).

Coordinates: 62°35′51.7″S 60°04′10″W / 62.597694°S 60.06944°W / -62.597694; -60.06944

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
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

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

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