Ivan Vladislav Point

Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Ivan Vladislav Point (Bulgarian: нос Иван Владислав, ‘Nos Ivan Vladislav’ \'nos i-'van vla-di-'slav\) is a point on the north coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica formed by an offshoot of Cherven Peak. Situated 1.63 km west-northwest of Herring Point, 400 m east-northeast of Simitli Point, and 3.27 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield.

The point is named after Czar Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria, 1015-1018 AD.

Location

Ivan Vladislav Point is located at 62°37′07.2″S 61°14′05.8″W / 62.618667°S 61.234944°W / -62.618667; -61.234944Coordinates: 62°37′07.2″S 61°14′05.8″W / 62.618667°S 61.234944°W / -62.618667; -61.234944. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
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

Ivan Vladislav Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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