Kostur Point

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Kostur Point (Bulgarian: нос Костур, ‘Nos Kostur’ \'nos kos-'tur\) is the point on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting 1.4 km southwards into Hill Bay.

The point is named after the settlement of Kostur in southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Kostur Point is located at 64°09′55″S 62°03′56″W / 64.16528°S 62.06556°W / -64.16528; -62.06556Coordinates: 64°09′55″S 62°03′56″W / 64.16528°S 62.06556°W / -64.16528; -62.06556 which is 4.2 km southwest of Spallanzani Point and 2.7 km north-northeast of Petroff Point. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3217. DOS 610 - W 64 62. Tolworth, UK, 1980.
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)
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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